Timeline for What prevents laws from being interpreted pedantically?
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| Mar 21, 2020 at 0:19 | comment | added | Criggie | Reminds me of scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122989/… | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 18:55 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | I wouldn't count on jury nullification for anything. Jury nullification is luck. | |
| S Mar 20, 2020 at 3:05 | history | edited | Greendrake | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added Jury nullification, arguably a more powerful example than prosecutorial discrestion. Both though, work together
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| S Mar 20, 2020 at 3:05 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added Jury nullification, arguably a more powerful example than prosecutorial discrestion. Both though, work together
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| Mar 19, 2020 at 5:38 | comment | added | vsz | And this is not even a novel concern. When Rome transitioned from kingdom to republic at about 500 BC, there was a concern similar to this: while a king can reasonably interpret laws in their context, a bureaucratic system could be blind to context and lacking human emotions to make fair judgements. (keep in mind that democracy wasn't widespread back then, so people were concerned about whether it would work at all) | |
| Mar 18, 2020 at 20:22 | history | answered | Greendrake | CC BY-SA 4.0 |