Liberty’s Heart & Lungs
Our right to Trial by Jury is the most ignored and endangered of our constitutional liberties. Yet, it is the one right that guarantees all other rights, liberties, and freedoms. John Adams called the Trial by Jury the “heart and lungs of liberty.”
Our fundamental, inalienable rights and freedoms are under attack. This assault on our right to Trial by Jury degrades local control, emboldens the ruling class, and tears down the last remaining bulwark against attacks on our personal and religious freedoms.
We must stand strong against this attack.
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“All courts shall be open and every person for an injury done him, in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law...The right to trial by jury shall remain inviolate.”
—Texas Constitution,
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“The right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.”
—United States Constitution,
Amendment 7
Our Principles
Freedom from incursions on our individual property and prosperity is providently embedded in our nation’s fabric. Juries are designed to bring justice to the ruling class and hold government bureaucracies at bay.
“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
Since the Magna Carta promised free people “lawful judgment of his equals” nearly 800 years ago, citizen jurors have been the most fundamental and final buttress against government infringement.
Our nation’s founders embedded this in our nation’s sacred documents. The Declaration of Independence accuses King George of depriving the citizenry “of the benefit of Trial by Jury.” To preserve personal freedom, the 7th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that “the right to trial by jury shall be preserved.”
The Texas Constitution reiterated that same right by stating that “The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate” adding that “all courts shall be open.”
Today, those same inalienable rights have been besieged by politicians beholden to corporate welfare recipients who have been conducting a decades-long assault on our Constitution.
“Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty. Without them we have no other fortification against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and clothed like swine and hounds.”
—John Adams
We must stand strong against this attack.
The open question is: Should we trust politicians beholden to lobbyists and special interests to defend our individual freedoms? What about the bureaucrats in Washington and Austin? The answer is clear.
The politicians and bureaucrats will bend and bow at the altar of corruption, selling our individual freedom to the highest bidder at every opportunity.
Instead of giving politicians more power over our lives, we must empower the citizenry to defend our fundamental constitutional freedoms. Made up of a band of ordinary, uncorrupted citizens, juries are the purest and smallest form of government available, free of outside influences and hidden agendas. There should be no statute of limitations on freedom, liberty, and justice.