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It's not always easy to get before a jury, and only a small percentage of all trials do reach juries, but those that do are influential. The jury has an immediate impact. When the jury acts, the government complies at once. Deciding the facts in a dispute is important of course, because that's ostensibly what's asked of them. But while deciding the facts, the jury must really decide if the law or laws involved make good public policy - which means the jury is free to ignore the written law as if it did not exist - in other words, to "nullify" it. This is based on the doctrine that the people in the American republic (the Constitution does not use the word "democracy") are sovereigns and "All power is inherent in the people!" All power! The jury is composed of a representative group of equal sovereigns - intended to be large enough to be diverse, but small enough to be operable, and as sovereigns, they retain, inherently, all power.
Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, this book looks at the history of racial formation in the U.S. by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies. Nayan Shah notes how the production of Chinese difference and white, heterosexual norms in public health policy affected social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Public health authorities depicted Chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions as...
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Considers S. 1312, to exempt from the antitrust laws certain combinations and arrangements necessary for the survival of failing newspapers. Includes report "Newspaper Monopolies and the Antitrust Laws, a Study of the Failing Newspaper Act;" by International Typographical Union, 1967 (p. 125-172).
The Founding Fathers guaranteed trial by jury three times in the Constitution—more than any other right—since juries can serve as the final check on government’s power to enforce unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws. But in America today, how independent c
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