Assertion: jury's power | /r/CapableOf | prosecute people
Facets:
value: for violating the fugitive slave law
type: CAUSE
value: for cultivating marijuana
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: One might say that the power to prosecute people for violating the fugitive slave law or for cultivating marijuana to save a grandson’s life is a wrongful power, and the jury’s ability to nullify allows “the people” to put a stop to the exercise of that wrongful power.