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Jury Nullification
By Christopher Holloman Hansen
Accepting Sovereignty comes with many responsibilities. One of our most important duties is that of Jury Duty for both Petit and Grand Juries. Justice Byron White said this concerning juries, “The purpose of a jury is to guard against the exercise of arbitrary power—to make available the commonsense judgment of the community as a hedge against the over-zealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps over conditioned or biased response of a judge.” Juries are established in the United States so that twelve Sovereigns (piers, equals, kings and queens) can decide if a fellow Sovereign has violated the laws of God by injuring another Sovereign’s rights. The Servants: Judges, Prosecutors, Sheriffs, Police, etc. cannot convict you. They cannot, without the UNANIMOUS approval of a jury of Sovereigns, take away your property, liberty, or life. These unalienable rights must be defended by every Sovereign as if they were voting concerning their own rights, because they are.
This is very important to understand. One informed Sovereign can vote against an unjust and/or unconstitutional law and keep it from being enforced. Juries are the opportunity for unelected officials, We the People, to vote directly on the laws enacted by our servants (congress, State legislatures). If we feel the laws are unjust or unconstitutional it is not just our right but our duty to cast our vote against that law by voting not guilty. Unjust laws cannot, therefore, be enforced and the bad law or a law that tried to usurp power or authority; or a law that is in violation of eternal Maxims and God’s laws becomes useless and We the People have defended our unalienable rights without firing a single shot. John Adams said it this way:
It is not only the juror’s right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
Juries are our opportunity to interpret the Constitution. If the Supreme Court of the United States upholds a law enacted by Congress and signed by the President and Juries will not convict people that violate those laws then the law becomes unenforceable. This happened just before the Civil War when juries would not convict Sovereigns that were helping fugitive slaves. The executive, legislative and judicial branches are only servants of the people and only We the People can convict another Sovereign.
Juries give the people the right to rebel without anarchy or blood shed. It is a peaceful alternative to check tyrannical government in its beginning stages. It is unlimited and unrestricted power over government enforcement as the law of the case and can be exercised by one single Sovereign that feels a law is morally wrong or that the government has not demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that a Sovereign has violated a just law. Even a Sovereign that is guilty of harming the rights of a fellow Sovereign can be acquitted if the jury feels that the government violated the law in proving him guilty. This is an important and difficult decision but must be made and is the proper choice as no single individual is ever in the position to harm the rights of people like the police and other government agencies. The slightest encroachment on the rights of the most despicable person is an encroachment on the rights of every Sovereign Citizen and must not be tolerated.
Jury duty is the first defense against tyranny. Below are two essays on Juries that will help all to understand this responsibility.
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. — Thomas Jefferson, 1789
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge’s instruction... if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong. — Alexander Hamilton, 1804
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