{"id":139,"date":"2009-12-24T22:06:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T22:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/?p=139"},"modified":"2017-03-20T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:28:20","slug":"background-and-statement-of-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Article 7: A. BACKGROUND AND STATEMENT OF THE FACTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Delegates representing forty-eight of the several States in Continental Congress assembled, being fully apprised in the premises, find that:<\/p>\n

1. The American People are the American Sovereign;<\/p>\n

2. As sovereign, the American People have the last say on the law;<\/p>\n

3. American Citizens are called to sit on both Grand and Petit Juries;<\/p>\n

4. In their capacity as jurors, the American people have the power, and the duty, to judge both the law and the facts;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAuthor Red Beckman: Juries & Jury Nullification. Wednesday November 18, 2009.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the subject matter of this Article: Read the SEVENTH AMENDMENT<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. See the related CC 2009 video presentations: Martin J. \u201cRed\u201d Beckman, founder, Fully Informed Jury Association (\u201cFIJA\u201d), constitutional activist and author \u2013 2 Law Systems, Jury Nullification, 7th<\/sup> Amendment and Fully Informed Jurors<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/em><\/strong>
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The Delegates representing forty-eight of the several States in Continental Congress assembled, being fully apprised in the premises, find that: 1. The American People are the American Sovereign; 2. As sovereign, the American People have the last say on the law; 3. American Citizens are called to sit on both Grand and Petit Juries; 4. In their capacity as jurors, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-juries-and-the-seventh-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}