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To: TChris
Do you mean to say that an oath to do those things is against the Constitution?

If there would be any conflict between doing such things and the Constitution, then yes. Such conflicts may not exist in general, but certainly could exist in specific cases.

Are you comfortable with 12 random people making that judgment? Do you think they know the Constitution well enough to say one way or the other?

The Constitution is neither long nor complex. What are long and complex are the illegitimate rationalizations used by violators to justify their actions.

66 posted on 05/20/2009 3:40:56 PM PDT by supercat (Barry Soetoro == Bravo Sierra)
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To: supercat
If there would be any conflict between doing such things and the Constitution, then yes. Such conflicts may not exist in general, but certainly could exist in specific cases.

OK, so if you decide there's a conflict, and that it would be unconstitutional for you to keep your juror's oath, do you go ahead and take that sacred oath, with the full intention of breaking it?

Or, in other words, your personal determination that a law is unconstitutional then gives you license to raise your right hand and lie to the judge, in the name of God?

The Constitution is neither long nor complex. What are long and complex are the illegitimate rationalizations used by violators to justify their actions.

You didn't answer my question.

Here it is again:

Are you comfortable with 12 random people making that judgment? Do you think they know the Constitution well enough to say one way or the other?

67 posted on 05/20/2009 10:17:21 PM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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