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I'm inclined to ignore your silly comments, except to reply plainly as you request, and to offer a couple of quotes from our nation's founders.

Yes, I support the U.S. Constitution - most of all the first seven words of it, which I'd like to remind you of:

"We the people of the United States..."

(Not the legislators, the executives, the judges - to whom you appeal as supreme authority. This they are not.)

"It is not only (the juror's) right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court." - John Adams

"(Y)ou have nevertheless a right to take upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy....(B)oth objects are lawfully within your power of decision." - John Jay

"But it is also their duty to exercise their judgments upon the law, as well as the fact." - Alexander Hamiltion

"It is essential to the security of personal rights and public liberty, that the jury should have and exercise the power to judge both of the law and of the criminal intent." - Alexander Hamilton

We could learn a lot from the founders, from those self-reliant, liberty-loving folks. And the principles which underlie jury trial and its authority of sitting in judgment of the law can instruct us on how best to restore America to her former greatness. For it starts - and ends - with we the people of the United States.

"We the people of the United States..."

(Not the legislators, the executives, the judges - to whom you appeal as supreme authority. This they are not.)

Really? You seem to have skipped the rest of the Constitution. Do you support all of it? ...or personal, edited version?

It is the Constitution which establishes legislators, executives and judges.

It is the Constitution which grants them authority, not, as you claim, my appeal alone.

The quotes you post are interesting but irrelevant, as they are not part of the Constitution. They may very well be the firm beliefs of the individuals quoted, but Article III vests no nullification authority with a jury.

As much as you, or individual founders, might have wished that the Constitution provide for jury nullification, it does not.

Your beliefs are anti-Constitutional. They do violence to the founding principles of representative government, equal protection and the very rule of law.

I pray these ideas remain isolated in the minds of few.