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Something like this shouldn’t have to be akin to the pain of filling out a long form 1040 for the IRS, with nothing but the original tax code to refer to. It’s lawyers and liberals who have inserted all this red tape.

Our nation's founders set up a court system where the most powerful lawmakers in the land were the jurors. They could overrule the sitting judge, prosecution, defense, supreme court and even the president.

In 1895 the supreme court ruled that jurors "need not be informed" of their rights and the courts have been further dismantling them ever since.

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1789): I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

JOHN ADAMS (1771): It's not only ....(the juror's) right, but his duty, in that case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1804): Jurors should acquit even against the judge's instruction...."if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong."

U.S. vs. DOUGHERTY (1972) [D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]: The jury has...."unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge."