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"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.uncommondescent.com/legal/jury-nullification-people-stripped-of-their-power/
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Jury
Nullificationby Democrat Thu Aug 07, 2008
08:41The Wikipedia article at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
contains the following statement:
"Jury nullification
may also occur in civil suits ..." -- and not just, as many
seem to believe at the present time, in criminal cases
only.
This now appears very important in relation to
highly controversial environmental situations such as the
location of "superdumps" at places like
Usk (County
Kildare) and
Kilconnell (County Galway), the
destruction of ancient heritage sites at places such as
Tara and
Turoe, the
multi-billion EUROS
"Shell To Sea" controversy (County Mayo) and so on (for
example) because, as is also stated at the above Wikipedia
address:
"Jury
nullification is a reminder that the right to trial by one's
peers affords the public an opportunity to take a dissenting
view about the justness of a statute or official
practices."Another and much more general --
though possibly extremely important -- observation regarding
this issue by master-politician and lawyer
Thomas
Jefferson (from the same Wikipedia article), who was
the principal author of the American Declaration of
Independence and the Third President of the United States of
America, reads as follows:
"I consider trial by jury as
the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can
be held to the principles of its
constitution."Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Jury+Nullification%2C+Civil+Cases&btnG=Search
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