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The ballot box is not nearly as potent as the jury box, when it comes to actually changing government.
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Juires, no matter how much you insist, do not "change government" nor do they make law.
Your original thesis infers somehow juries created law and delivered more justice to a class of people vis-à-vis what you say here:
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(SNIP) But there are many examples of the Jury delivering far more justice than is delivered by ANY statehouse gang of crooks.
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Again: juries do not make laws; ever.
And what “Justice” do juries “deliver”?
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If one believes in democracy, the Jury CAN BE, not always is, the will of the people at its best.
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Not at all true since juries are ostensibly made up of “peers” thoughutterly ordinary people usually make up juries. they, like you, are as opinionated as the next person.
Though tasked with following the law, juries are in fact unknown quantities with all the personal pitfalls and foibles of other humans, otherwise how can ordinary juries, in the face of overwhelming evidence, find for or against a guilty/innocent defendant, many time the verdicts being delivered by dint of bribes to fear-filled reactions to outright threats by 11 who Put the fear of God” in the holdout?
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Proportion and justice, from the people to the people.
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I hope you do not expect me to genuflect for the 2 Acts you mention?
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No, though the “Acts” you mention are laws drafted and passed by Congress.
Certainly if one disagrees with laws and they sit on a jury where either law is in question, they, if they are like you, might feel free to “wing it”, thinking they, like you, are somehow making law or “Delivering" justice.