In his book - Freedom Under Siege - Ron Paul promotes the Constitution-hating Lysander Spooner (whom he refers to simply as a "19th century writer") by pitching Spooner's notion that juries have the right to usurp the Constitutional right of the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of legislative statutes.
His treatment of Spooner is one of uncritical adulation.
This is the same Spooner who is best known for his anarchist treatise: "No Treason: The Constitution Of No Authority" which argues that the Constitution is invalid, not the law of the land, and can be safely ignored.
That doesn’t sound like much of a booster to me. So he agrees with an early American scholar on a thing or two and he is a booster? I like Germany’s autobahns. So am I a Hitler supporter?
Spooner’s views are very much consistent with the Founders. Just where in the hell do you think that whole “We the People” came from? The individual was to be Sovereign, not subject.
Juries have the right to disagree with the Supreme Court, - when the courts rulings on the constitutionality of legislative statutes, - infringe upon the Constitutional rights of individuals.
Surely, you must agree that juries are empowered to apply both the facts and law of the case at hand to decide guilt or innocence?