I find it amazing that 2 judges dissented.
I do not find it amazing that U.S. law has followed Calvin's Case since 1776, and British law followed it until 1981 when it changed that law by issuing a new statute law. Neither do I find it amazing that nobody remembers the two dissenting opinions, who wrote them, or what they said.
If you state your opinion on the law, it is predictable that you are on the "2" side of 12-2. Not that you ahave ever actually read the dissents.
That is an assertion. You know all the examples of cited cases where it didn't. (Such as Sailor's snug harbor)
Neither do I find it amazing that nobody remembers the two dissenting opinions, who wrote them, or what they said.
It's not amazing that people don't remember the dissenting opinions. It is amazing that there WERE any dissenting opinions.
With the entire force of the King coming down on the Judges, and civil war as a prospect for voting against the king, it is amazing that two judges still had the balls to do it.
Am I not explaining the point in a clear enough manner that you can get it?
Those two judges were potentially taking their own life in their hands for voting against the King.
It is unremarkable that the majority will cave if threatened. It is quite remarkable that two of them would not cave under pressure.
The Asch conformity experiment shows that 80% of a population will go along with the majority, while 20% will insist on the truth.
2 out of 12 is close to 20%. (16.6666%)