No, you misunderstand. Jury trial presumes the authority of the jurors to judge the law. This was plainly understood by the founders, as it’s clear as day. Judges, legislators and executives may not like it. But of course that’s the nature of power, isn’t it?
Now you might want this principle to be anti-Constitutional. And you might call it anti-Constitutional. But I’ll wait until you point me to the article and section which denies juries the authority to judge the law before I’ll concede the point.
It’s not there, of course, and I suspect you know it. But what you don’t know is how self-government works. You’ve got a blueprint by which a people can govern themselves (drawn up by somebody else), but you don’t know how it accomplishes its task. You put great confidence in it, but it’s mere blind confidence since you don’t understand how self-government works.
The founders understood what self-government requires of a people. They understood the conditions of freedom. These goods don’t arise from constitutions. They arise from we the people, or not at all. The sooner we realize this and begin to look around at ourselves and our fellow citizens (on juries and elsewhere), the sooner we’ll start to comprehend why our nation is on a course to destruction.
Blame Obama, blame McCain, blame Ginsburg, sure. But realize they’re merely seizing the opportunities we the people have given them. It’s the O.J. Simpson trial on a grand scale.
One can almost hear the Moral-Relativist-Murder is OK-Freepers chortling to themselves “This is even better than the OJ trial - one can spot a black person and keep them off the jury, but in this trial, how are they gonna tell a stealth pro-murder juror just by looking?”