It's known as Jury Nullification and most lawyers have never heard of it and no judge is going to mention it. If it's a bad law, the Jury can return a verdict of not guilty regardless of the evidence.

One solution to this frivolous lawsuit problem that infests this country, would be to fine the people bringing the suit and making them pay court costs.

Virtually every person in the U.S. Congress is,or has been a lawyer. Does that explain why we are in the mess that we are in.

Cal said it right.

Thanks to the "War on Drugs" we have these lovely asset forfeiture laws established some years back by our highly intelligent congress. I wouldn't say that it's "due process of law" when cops can take your car, your boat, your home, or whatever without even charging you with a crime. They do it every day right here in the land of the formerly free. LEAP.cc

I'd need his definition of "true liberty". I suspect that many Cubans who did what he advised are languishing year after year in one of Fidel's prisons.

" Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own commonsense." The Buddha

In our nanny state, you shouldn't say anything that isn't politically correct.

The Bill of Rights exists to protect us from government, not from each other.

And when politicians give away your money, liberals consider them to be so caring and altruistic.

I agree with this one, and there is no doubt that the lawyers are running, or ruining the country. Almost every single person in both houses of congress is a lawyer, has been a lawyer, or at least has been to law school. Is it any wonder that things are so fouled up.

This quote is unfortunantly true. The best organization on earth for protection of property rights and other government usurptions of our liberties is the Institute for Justice. Check them out.

I love quotes by this man, He always got it right.

Thanks to this horrible "War on Drugs" cops can now seize private property without even charging anyone with a crime. If this isn't a police state please tell me what is.

I think that George Thomas has it right. It's good to see that not everyone in England has gone crazy.

Perhaps you've noticed that no matter how much evidence proves that a man in prison is really innocent, prosecutors will never admit that they were wrong. 50 people can swear that the prisoner was in China when the crime happened in Texas and the prosecuting attorney will still say he's guilty.

Mr. Mill sounds like he may have been a Libertarian, if so, good for him. The libertarian Party is the only political party that truly believes in limited government. The dems and repubs are two sides of the same coin.

Shucks guys, the IRS says that paying income taxes is voluntary. Of course if you don't volunteer you could be in a lot of trouble. This does not fit the definition of the word " volunteer" that I found in my dictionary. Perhaps the good folk in the treasury department have a different dictionary.

Come on Reston, the dems and repubs are both in it up to their eyeballs. One is as much to blame as the other.

I'm with J on this one. The government uses tragedies such as war to grant itself all sorts of new powers.

As usual, Jefferson was right. It's sad to note that we've come from giants like Washington and Jefferson to pygmies like Carter, the Bushes, Clinton, and Obama.

As to the last line of this quote, the "significant segments of the people" would be those who can think. Unfortunatley, most people don't do much thinking and most of them vote.

Good quote from the man who used a war to centralize power in Washinton. To all those souls who love the "great emancipator", he only freed the slaves in 4 states, the ones that wanted to secede.

Whether good or evil, it's not determined by one's economic status.

Wrong ,J Carlton, you have the "right" to do as you're told by those wonderful people in Washington.