{"id":991,"date":"2025-10-31T16:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:53:34","slug":"a-dire-warning-from-james-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"A Dire Warning from James Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Fdire-warning-from-james-wilson%3Af?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Inspired by the October 22, 2025 episode of the Tenth Amendment Center&#8217;s Path to Liberty<br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2025\/10\/even-the-law-isnt-above-the-law\/\">https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2025\/10\/even-the-law-isnt-above-the-law\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Bringing together two quotes from James Wilson, from his Speech to the Pennsylvania Convention on Nov. 24, 1787:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/document\/speech-to-the-pennsylvania-convention\/\">https:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/document\/speech-to-the-pennsylvania-convention\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">and his Lectures on Law:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/contextus.org\/James_Wilson's_Lectures_on_Law_(1789_to_1791)%2C_Part_1%2C_Chapter_I_Introductory_Lecture_Of_The_Study_Of_The_Law_In_The_United_States.64?lang=en&amp;with=all&amp;lang2=en\">https:\/\/contextus.org\/James_Wilson&#8217;s_Lectures_on_Law_(1789_to_1791)%2C_Part_1%2C_Chapter_I_Introductory_Lecture_Of_The_Study_Of_The_Law_In_The_United_States.64?lang=en&amp;with=all&amp;lang2=en<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">What does it mean when the courts despise jury nullification? It means that the government has overstepped its bounds and decided to ignore the supreme power of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/dire-warning-from-james-wilson:f\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uUdeGHt6lzE\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/update_video\/EvAPlIigqaTJ\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro quote by Theophilous Parsons, quoted in this paper by James Ostrowski:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/journal-libertarian-studies\/rise-and-fall-jury-nullification\">https:\/\/mises.org\/journal-libertarian-studies\/rise-and-fall-jury-nullification<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music by INPLUSMUSIC, courtesy Pixabay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/lnplusmusic-47631836\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/lnplusmusic-47631836\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the October 22, 2025 episode of the Tenth Amendment Center&#8217;s Path to Libertyhttps:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2025\/10\/even-the-law-isnt-above-the-law\/ Bringing together two quotes from James Wilson, from his Speech to the Pennsylvania Convention on Nov. 24, 1787:https:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/document\/speech-to-the-pennsylvania-convention\/ and his Lectures on Law:https:\/\/contextus.org\/James_Wilson&#8217;s_Lectures_on_Law_(1789_to_1791)%2C_Part_1%2C_Chapter_I_Introductory_Lecture_Of_The_Study_Of_The_Law_In_The_United_States.64?lang=en&amp;with=all&amp;lang2=en<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,2],"tags":[151,86,281,282,60,19,85,236,72],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-political","category-video-link","tag-classical-liberalism","tag-freedom","tag-james-wilson","tag-jury-nullification","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-philosophy","tag-political-philosophy","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warning-wilson-thumb.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}