The people of one county allowed their commissioners to do away with the grand jury. After some years the people said, “we want our grand jury back.” They successfully voted the return of the grand jury.
But, one has to ask, “Why did the people have to vote on this issue? They had to run about collecting names for the petition. Once they had enough names, they were forced to dedicate additional labor and expend additional resources to vote whether or not they had the right to provide a function of government that their own county government unlawfully took from them.. How far have we slipped?
In Montana the people have to beg the job function email list constitutional authority to set up a grand jury. According to that state's Constitution, the grand jury sits at the convenience and pleasure of the government. Where did these so-called lawmakers get the right to define and limit the people's grand jury? They just took it, and we let them do it. Now, the people believe they must petition the Constitutional authority for the right to vote on an issue that is not defined in the Constitution.
The Citizens of this nation must be retaught to understand that it is their right and their most important civic responsibility to be a fully informed member of a fully functioning jury. It is because we have forgotten our responsibility to one another as jurors that the fence between Citizens and abusive government has fallen down; it is because we have forsaken our responsibilities to one another that 2 million of our countrymen are imprisoned and millions more have been forced into bankruptcy. The fate of our country and the fate of your friends and family may well depend upon the return of the fully informed jury in America -- the most powerful branch of government under the Constitution for the united States of America.
A Citizens' grand jury could put government's
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