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From: Jon Roland ...@constitution.org>

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:44:17 -0500

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Subject: Sarah Palin: Jury Rights Day Proclamation

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http://gov.state.ak.us/print_news-17852.html

Jury Rights Day

WHEREAS, September 5, 2007, will mark the 337th anniversary of the day
when the jury, in the trial of William Penn, refused to convict him of
violating England’s Conventicle Acts, despite clear evidence that he
acted illegally by preaching a Quaker sermon to his congregation.

WHEREAS, by refusing to apply what they determined was an unjust law,
the Penn jury not only served justice, but provided a basis for the U.S.
Constitution’s First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, religion,
and peaceable assembly.

WHEREAS, September 5th, 2007, also commemorates the day when four of
Penn’s jurors began nine weeks of incarceration for finding him not
guilty. Their later release and exoneration established forever the
English and American legal doctrine that it is the right and
responsibility of the trial jury to decide on matters of law and fact.

WHEREAS, the Sixth and Seventh Amendments are included in the Bill of
Rights to preserve the right to trial by jury, which in turn conveys
upon the jury the responsibility to defend, with its verdict, all other
individual rights enumerated or implied by the U.S. Constitution,
including its Amendments.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the State of Alaska, do
hereby proclaim September 5, 2007, as:

Jury Rights Day

in Alaska, in recognition of the integral role the jury, as an
institution, plays in our legal system.

Dated: August 31, 2007
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