From 09ec4cf3bb4ce61b5a05ef59a3a3b95869e49098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wellspringcp <69349872+wellspringcp@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 01:33:48 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Update 08-courts-apologia.md --- 08-courts/08-courts-apologia.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/08-courts/08-courts-apologia.md b/08-courts/08-courts-apologia.md index e8e202b..4b63760 100644 --- a/08-courts/08-courts-apologia.md +++ b/08-courts/08-courts-apologia.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Traditionally speaking, we tend to think that common law is a process which attempts to make a man subject only to those laws which his fellow man would hold him subject to - and this is the purpose of the jury: the jury has the power to acquit a defendant who has violated a law which the common people do not believe is just. -Common law attempts to act grant the common man a veto over the government's power both in the sense that: +Common law attempts to grant the common man a veto over the government's power both in the sense that: - It is a jury of common men who reason over the facts and the law. Recall that in a court of record, the magistrate is **not** a judge and does **not** have the power of tribunal, and is merely a staff of the plaintiff's court, so the government's power over the proceeding is curtailed severely. - The jury's own powers of reasoning determine the judgment, and not the preferences of the government's judge, usurping power to act as a judge within a court of record where he should be only a magistrate.