“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The Anglo-American protection of a person’s right to have the legitimacy of accusations made against him determined by a jury of his peers is of ancient origin, so ancient in fact, that the date of its first appearance in English law may be hidden in the fog of...
NOTE: The following is an excerpt of the article, The Rise and Fall of Jury Nullification, by James Ostrowski. Originally published in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 15, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 89–115, the full article can be found at Mises.org What the...
As usual, our liberty is under attack by the federal government. An appeals court has just upheld a ruling that prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay are not entitled to habeas corpus, and thus, cannot challenge their detention in court. So, once again, the federal...