Mark

Tax cuts for the rich now there’s a classic, typical class envy with no substance… all dressed up and no place to go eh Mikey ?

I got a rebate from the Presidents tax cut, didn’t You ? I was hoping he would cut taxes again maybe and really drive the liberals nutz.

Mark

Nowhere in the American judicial system is the word “peer” used to describe the makeup of a jury. The eighth amendment to the U.S. Constitution secures the right of those accused in criminal prosecutions “to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed” (http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=13&page=transcript) Trial by a “jury of peers” actually stems from a misinterpretation of the Magna Carta, which stated “No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.” The Magna Carta dates from 1215; the idea this document guaranteed a jury of peers arose in the 17th century. In the United States, we don’t have an officially recognized system of social castes in which people have peers. The statutory presumption is that we are all peers, and therefore it is unnecessary to add that word to the description of the jury.