Citizen's Rule Book

The Citizen's Rule Book is a ranty, quote mine-filled pamphlet published by, well, somebody (it's believed to have been written by one or more white supremacists)A member of the named Verne Jay Merrell claimed authorship in his 1997 trial for bank robbery; however, the St. Petersburg Times claimed it was first printed in 1976 by a Phoenix printer named Charles Olsen. See Bernard J. Sussman's Idiot Legal Theories, at adl.org. espousing a Christian fundamentalist slant on governing the United States and a juror's right to engage in jury nullification. 
As is often the case with propaganda literature involved with right-wing extremist groups, the Rule Book attempts to make a rather muddled case that the US government is founded on Christian principles (the Ten Commandments appear quite prominently), and invokes all the usual bugbears of the 13th (abolition of slavery), 14th (full citizenship to all born in the US, regardless of race), and 16th (income tax) amendments, even going so far as to question the validity of any Constitutional amendment since the 12th (added in 1803), as well as a brief attack on the 17th amendment (direct election of Senate).
As might be expected, it's very popular with Alex Jones and others of his ilk.
WARNING: In cases where the Rule Book or the arguments espoused within it have been brought up, US courts have been known to dismiss jurors for having read the book on presumption of being lawless wingnut whackadoodles. You should read it anyway, on the presumption that it's better to know your enemy.
==Annotations==
===The Citizens Rule Book JURY HANDBOOK===
===TABLE of CONTENTS===
:This is from the original copy and is preserved only for completeness' sake. Please use the wiki ToC instead.
Section I A HANDBOOK FOR JURORS
*JURY DUTY
*YOU ARE ABOVE THE "LAW"!
*JURY RIGHTS
*LAW OF THE LAND
*TEN COMMANDMENTS
*COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
*GIVE UP RIGHTS?
*JURY TAMPERING?
Section II GIVE ME LIBERTY...
*PATRICK HENRY SHOCKED
*JURY OF PEERS
*FREEDOM FOR WILLIAM PENN
*JEFFERSON'S WARNINGS!
Section III ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
*INDEX TO THE DOCUMENTS
**Index to the unanimous Declaration
**Index to the Constitution of the United States
**Index to the Amendments to Constitution of the United States
:The following were not included in the online copy we used for this project and are linked below through Project Gutenberg and the US Government Printing Office.
*THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
*THE CONSTITUTION
*THE BILL OF RIGHTS
Copies of this information are available from Whitten Printers
===Section I: A HANDBOOK FOR JURORS===
====Jury Duty!====
====YOU ARE ABOVE THE LAW!====
====JURY RIGHTS====
====LAW OF THE LAND====
====A SUMMARY OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS====
====A SUMMARY OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO====
====GIVE UP RIGHTS FOR THE "COMMON GOOD"?====
====INALIENABLE, (UNALIENABLE) OR NATURAL RIGHTS!====
====JURY TAMPERING?====
====The Right of the JURY to be Told of Its Power====
====LAWS, FACTS AND EVIDENCE!====
====HOW DOES TYRANNY BEGIN? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY LAWS?====
====YOUR VOTE COUNTS!====
===Section II: GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!===
====PATRICK HENRY SHOCKED!====
====JURY OF PEERS====
====WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO SIT ON A JURY?====
=====MR.HENRY=====
=====MR.HOLMES=====
=====MR.WILSON=====
====FREEDOM FOR WILLIAM PENN====
====THE FIRST AMENDMENT====
====JEFFERSON'S WARNINGS!====
===Section III: INDEX TO THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS===
====GENERAL INDEX TO: THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION====
====GENERAL INDEX TO: CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES====
====GENERAL INDEX TO: THE BILL OF RIGHTS and Amendments====
=====PREAMBLE:=====
=====ARTICLES - COMMON LAW=====
:Note: For everyone else, this is the Bill of Rights. It has never been known as "Common Law".
=====AMENDMENTS - EQUITY LAW=====
===NOW IT'S YOUR TURN!===
==Further reading==
*Text at Geocities, via the Wayback Machine.
*The US Constitution at Cornell Law School
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==Notes==
==References==
Category:Pseudolaw
Category:Christian fundamentalism
Category:Propaganda
Category:Racism