"Likewise, Reason's Damon Root wrote in 2018 on the originalist case for jury nullification, finding that there's "good evidence that many 18th and 19th century Americans understood juries to possess the lawful power to reject guilty verdicts when the jurors believed the underlying law was unconstitutional."
The concerns that motivated those Americans, Cavedon says, are much the same as today's.
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