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The Constitution guarantees equal access to the courts for
individuals as well as corporations. It allows ordinary
Americans and small businesses to utilize a branch of government
(the Judicial Branch) to protect themselves from wrongdoing,
negligent and intentional, and from denials of other sacred promises
made in the Bill of Rights
(liberty, property, privacy, protection,
speech and assembly). This remarkable document even allows
people to challenge government with some hope of a fair hearing.
In the United States,
juries of ordinary citizens, not legislators, decide questions of
damages in cases and controversies, as provided under
Amendment VII
to the United States Constitution. Jurors decide degrees of
punishment without restrictions other than reasonableness and
fairness as interpreted by a trial judge. In this way, all
cases are judged on their merits rather than a 'one size fits all'
basis. Punishments are made to fit the particular circumstance
of each case and reflect the size and resources of the wrongdoer.
Amendment VI to our
Constitution guarantees those same rights to people accused of
crimes. In this country, we trust citizen juries to determine
guilt or innocence rather than trusting tribunals constituted by
government officials.
Our Constitutional Rights
are unique. No one else has them but we Americans. They
must be jealously guarded and defended, however, or these precious
liberties will be lost or worse, given away by politicians with
anti-Constitution slogans.
At Welch and Kitchens, we
not only venerate the American Constitution, we utilize it AND
defend it every day. Our clients deserve nothing less.
It is their birthright as American citizens. |
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