http://www.extrememortman.com/president-george-bush/by-george/ Just When You Thought it was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:47:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.extrememortman.com/president-george-bush/by-george/#comment-56724 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:27:30 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/president-george-bush/by-george/#comment-56724 It is not as if we invented trial by jury; the Brits (under various kings) did. And, after several hundred years of experience with trying civil cases (disputes between private parties, over money) before juries, they decided in 1925 that using "12 good men and true" to determine what were even then increasingly complex matters (from which, under all jury systems, everyone knowing anthing about even the general subject involved in the dispute wrre rigourously excluded) MADE NO SENSE ANYMORE - and they abolished it. It is not as if we invented trial by jury; the Brits (under various kings) did. And, after several hundred years of experience with trying civil cases (disputes between private parties, over money) before juries, they decided in 1925 that using “12 good men and true” to determine what were even then increasingly complex matters (from which, under all jury systems, everyone knowing anthing about even the general subject involved in the dispute wrre rigourously excluded) MADE NO SENSE ANYMORE - and they abolished it.

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