Re: **** tha police

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 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:

>
>In article <billvan-C04174.00592627042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>bill van  <billvan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>Yeah, okay. Perhaps the judge was more nearly one of the cops' peers 
>>than a jury would have been.
>
>That "jury of his peers" thing doesn't apply in the US.  It's from
>the magna carta, and it means that if you are a yeoman, you get a
>jury of yeomen, if you're an Earl, you get a jury of Earls, etc.
>Since we don't have a system of feudal titles over here, it doesn't
>apply.

When I was wandering around Wa****ngton DC in 1997, there was a museum
dedicated towards do***ents like constitutions and declarations.  They
had Ted Turner's copy of the Magna Carta on display.

I believe that the US system incor****ated huge swaths of British
Common Law, including most of the Magna Carta.  Excepting, of course,
the landed titles thing.
-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27