The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1790 promulgates a new Constitution. Article IX, Section 7 of which states: “in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.”
[restored 10/16/2021]
Nice to see the Fully Informed Jury made it from British jurisprudence to the American legal tradition, until the bar association took over legal education; now we have to fight for Jury Rights to judge the law and the facts. –– JL
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Magna Carta, Chapter 39
ccc-2point0.com/Magna_Carta
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 2
ccc-2point0.com/unanimous_Declaration
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, Section VLII
avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/pa08.asp
References:
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790, Article IX, Section 7, U.S. Congress, Senate, The Federal and Sate Constitution, Colonial Charters, and other Organic Laws of the United States, two volumes, second edition, compiled by Ben Perley Poore, (New York: Burt Franklin, 1924: New York: New York: Lennox Hill, 1972), 2:1554.
“Articles,” FIJActivist, Winter/Spring 1999, 33.
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790, Article VI, Section 7
www.paconstitution.duq.edu/con90.html
Fully Informed Jury Association : Library & Resources : Library : Law and Legal Cases : State Constitution Language on Jury Nullification
fija.org/library-and-resources/library/law-and-legal-cases/state-constitution-language.html
Constitutions of the Several states
www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/constitution.phtml
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