[lbo-talk] jury duty

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 16 20:43:39 PDT 2006


jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote:


>I agree with Doug in his last sentence that the jury system idea is
>great but far too many citizens are fear
>filled racists for me to call it great in practice.

Again that's the society's problem, not the jury system's. The US constitution, for example, is full of fear of the masses' judgment; everything has to be checked & balanced. The jury system is conceptually high on the masses' judgment. The bourgeoisie would never go for a jury system if it were designing things today.

Doug



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