[Celtic Party] "People stripped of their power"

"The constitution preserves the right of a defendant to request a jury trial when damages (actual and punitive) exceed $20. That’s because in all but the most trivial of cases the people have wanted to have the right to be judged not by an elite federal justice but by a jury of their peers from their local community." ================== "People stripped of their power" by Example Fri Aug 08, 2008 08:54 We, the People of the Republic of Ireland, are now very badly in need of an arrangement something like the one outlined just below perhaps? "The constitution preserves the right of a defendant to request a jury trial when damages (actual and punitive) exceed $20. That’s because in all but the most trivial of cases the people have wanted to have the right to be judged not by an elite federal justice but by a jury of their peers from their local community." The above piece is from http://www.uncommon descent.com/ legal/jury-nullification-people-stripped-of-their-power/ =================== The above text has been copied from the following Indymedia (Ireland) location: http://www.indymedi a.ie/article/87134#comment233927 =================== Human Rights (Ireland) http://www.humanrightsireland.com ===================