The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-03-27
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HOW THE CONSTITUTION 10 !,
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The exact time and place when a..
where one form of property in !.
nestle trade and foreign commas.
was first deprived of the consf,..
tional rights assured to every own.
may not be readily stated.
1t would be worth the while to Inn,
down and place the first occas,o,
when the owner of lawful prone,
ty was denied the right of trial h.
jury, "a day in court" or due proees,
of law" when the right of use ana
possession of such property was cO.
led in question.
1t is evident that those who Al.
tempted such deprivation of constim
tional rights did not appreciate the
dangerous course upon which they
were entering. They did not know
that they were entering upon the de-
struction of constitutional govern.
ment, or, if one form of Lawful
property be removed from
guardianship of the bills 0,
rights, trial by jury, all forms are
placed in jeopardy and governmen.
under a written constitution over
thrown. Under the system now IN
vogue only wild denunciation by some
organized cult is needful to secure
the sitting of trade in any article Of
commerce and trenching upon the
security of life itself.
Denial Of the right of trial by jury
has now become a common event IN
many states. Such denial is the most
serious invasion of those liberties as
sured in the great charter Of the
English government. and adopted In
to the constitution of the United
States and all of the states.
Let us see what takes place under
the rule of the Revolutionary propa-
ganda now in partial control in sever
al sections.
You are tried as to the safety, own.
ership and useful employment of your
lawful property on vague and general
charges uttered on public platforms
by those woh are not officers Of the
law. These charges are not embodied
in any legal form by chosen officer
of the law, and are tried, without the
formality and safeguards of legal pro
cedure, by a town meeting or county
ballot or a state ballot or a ballot in
a legislature and not under any cir
cumstapces by jury of your peers.
twelve good men and true, sworn to
observe the rules of evidence. In this
trial, new to the American people
and having no real standing in con.
stitutional Jurisprudence, you can call
no counsel and plead no cause; your
only defense is in persuading citizens
to vote for you, and the continued
lawful enjoyment of what is your own.
This system, or lack of system, is
perversion of constitutional liberty
under our government. 1t was never
intended to try anybody or determine
the rights of property by town meet
ings or legislatures, except members
or public officials, and town meetings
and legislatures voting away property
have usurped the powers of courts.
and thrown our system out of balance
The judicial powers have been exer-
cised by those to whom they do not
attach, except as they are called upon
as jurors or elective judicial officers.
Neither majority rule" nor the ex-
ercise of the so-called police power
can justify or palliate denial of the
right of trial by jury, one of the fun
damental rights of every citizen.
AS matter of fact, it has become
a profitable business for the hired
agents of a highly centralized organ
ization to interfere in peaceful com
munities, trench upon the constitu-
tional rights of citizens and demand
that they defend their lawful property
and business by a trial of ballots, in
place of trial by jury. In view Of this
new and highly dangerous method oil
procedure, there is need today Of a
powerful re-assertion or the integrity
of the constitution and enforcement
of its guarantees that mo person shall
be deprived of life, liberty or property
without due process of law; nor shall
private property be taken for public
use without just compensation" A
ballot is not due process of Law" lad.