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LadyEllen -> RE: Jury nullification-what the courts don't want you to know. (3/20/2010 5:21:43 AM)
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Quite why you think British people are chattels of the Crown I dont know, and again I refer you to the period of the English Civil War through to the Enlightenment as before, and what flowed from that up to the mid 1970s when EU law became supreme in the English jurisdiction, with all prior law being interpreted accordingly and all new law accomodating that principle, such that even if the Crown owned us previously, it didnt any longer, especially since the enactment of EU human rights legislation.
Where you may be confused I suspect is in the notions achieved that the monarch is subject to the law and that only Parliament may make law. This makes the monarch the subject of the Parliament, which in turn is the subject of the people, in an utter revision to the prior state where the people were subject to their lords (and thence Parliament, comprising the aristocracy, nobility and landed gentry) who in turn were subject to the monarch. Since we dont have a written constitution that makes the whole thing clear, but rather an evolving constitutional arrangement since the 17th century, its apparent that things may be misconstrued or misunderstood by anyone (including Brits) on a passing acquaintance with the subject.
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