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Bono
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« on: December 18, 2004, 10:44:20 AM »
If I'm not wrong, if a jury nullifies a law, that becomes a precendent in common law.

Anyways, I'm strongly in favor of it.
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Bono
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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2004, 03:50:53 AM »
Quote from: Richius on December 20, 2004, 09:54:24 PM
Quote from: Gubernatorial Candidate, Senator Bono on December 18, 2004, 10:44:20 AM
If I'm not wrong, if a jury nullifies a law, that becomes a precendent in common law.

Anyways, I'm strongly in favor of it.
Anglo-Saxon Common law does not have precendents.  To govern by precedents is tyranny.

Juries should not have the power to nullify a law.  They can choose not to apply it, however.  Juries answer to no one, save God Himself.

Oh, my bad. Here we have civil law, so I don't really know all about that.
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Bono
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2004, 04:55:55 AM »
Quote from: Richius on December 21, 2004, 08:42:26 AM
Quote from: Gubernatorial Candidate, Senator Bono on December 21, 2004, 03:50:53 AM
Quote from: Richius on December 20, 2004, 09:54:24 PM
Quote from: Gubernatorial Candidate, Senator Bono on December 18, 2004, 10:44:20 AM
If I'm not wrong, if a jury nullifies a law, that becomes a precendent in common law.

Anyways, I'm strongly in favor of it.
Anglo-Saxon Common law does not have precendents.  To govern by precedents is tyranny.

Juries should not have the power to nullify a law.  They can choose not to apply it, however.  Juries answer to no one, save God Himself.

Oh, my bad. Here we have civil law, so I don't really know all about that.
No you don't.  The only places in North America where Civil Law is practiced to some extent is Louisiana and Quebec.

The United States is based on Common Law.  Sadly, over the ages, Civil Law has intruded.

Civil Law is tyranny.

I live in Portugal. Read my signature.
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