So, what you are saying is that because in your view some jurors exercise their rights in an irresponsible manner, you are favoring taking away our rights to civil trial by jury, or severely restricting them.
Isn't this the exact same argument anti-gun forces make to undermine the second amendment?
Fact: Some gun owners kill.
Argument: Take away our second amendment right to bear arms, and we stop the "carnage."
Fact: Some juries act irresponsibly.
Argument: Take away or severely restict our constitutional right to civil trial by jury, and we stop the legal excesses.
When the Framers gave us the right to jury trials in money damage cases, I think they understood that jurors are unpredictable, even sometimes unfair. But, overall, the system works.
How far would we like to undo the constitutional protections?
P.S.--A required text--the Seventh Amendment to the constitution:
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. |
