Resist@teltone.UUCP (06/23/83)
"It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the
ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one
which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy... The
Constitution has erected no such tribunal, knowing that to
whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party,
its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the
departments coequal and cosovereign within themselves."
Thomas Jefferson
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among
the people." John Adams
"We the people are the rightful masters, both of Congress and the
Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but the men who prevert
the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society
but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened
enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the
remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform (them)."
Thomas Jefferson
"If this young republic ever goes down to oblivion, it will be
because of the difficulty of educating its multitudes of rulers."
Edmund Burke
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects something
that can not be." Thomas Jefferson
Criminal Law 731
Jury has undisputed power to acquit, even if its verdict is
contrary to law as given by judge and contrary to evidence.
Criminal Law 768(1)
Jury should not be told that they may disregard law and
decide according to their prejudices or consciences.
See UNITED STATES v. MOYLAN 417 F.2d 1002 (1969)