Wesley Struebing wrote:
[snip]

> Fine, then amend our Constitution (well, the 6th Amendment itself)  It
> guarantees one a trial by jury  (not jury of one's peers-that does NOT
> appear in the Constitution anywhere,

The trial by peers is in the Magna Carta (1215), clause 39
"(39) No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his
rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his
standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him,
or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals
or by the law of the land."
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/magnacarta/translation.html>

In this translation peers has been changed to equals.

Andrew Swallow
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