MC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jury Nullification, John Peter Zenger, Excessive Bail Clause
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Our legal system is based on the british legal system, because we were a british colony. The british system had kings, and one of the biggest crimes in 15th, 16th, and 17th century london was saying something bad about the king. You were pretty much going to be found guilty. William prynne wery religious, and he thought that acting (plays, drama) was immoral. He was pretty defiant because he continued his writings, and he continued to be punished: after the puritan revolution, he became a government minister after the king was ousted and ran the tower of london. (1769) 678 (n. y. 1735: new york city was small, the population was 20,000, and it was pretty much confined to lower manhattan, william bradford had an official newspaper called new. For a while rip van dam was former acting governor. William cosby (british aristocrat) takes 6 months to get into office.
