But then something unusual happened. The jury sent a note to the trial judge with the following query: Since the Constitution needed to be amended in 1919 to authorize federal criminal prosecutions for manufacturing and smuggling alcohol, a juror wanted to know from the judge where “is the constitutional grant of authority to ban mere possession of cocaine today?”Or guns.
[Via Peter G]
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In a constitutional republic, the LAW goes on trial along with every defendant. The informed juror who knew that was immediately replaced so business as usual could continue.
The Four Boxes theory applies.
In 1926, at the height of Prohibition, North Carolina agents seized 216 liquor stills in ONE MONTH. A local legislator was working hard to get the law changed to ALLOW working, taxpaying citizens TO HAVE A BEER without going to jail.
Prohibition has been called the most-ignored law in history. And let's not forget that much of the Kennedy family fortune came from rumrunning.
Government as parent, citizens as children. Not the way it's meant to be.
Residents of eight cities have had a chance to have questions for Barack Obama videotaped by the Democratic National Committee for airing at the national convention.
One asked what he would do to ban mercury in dental fillings.
Another wanted to know what kind of dog he would get if he's elected.
We've come so far since 1990, when on MTV Klinton was asked "Boxers or briefs?"
A republic, if you can keep it...
This is a very clear example why the government has a death grip on the government school system. These people are not to know such things and they will not be part of the lessons taught in government schools.
A nation by far and large, dumb down by its very own government.
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