Question
The landmark Bushell’s Case resulted from the application of this practice in R. v Penn and Mead just over a decade before defendant William Penn founded an American colony. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this practice by which jurors acquit a defendant despite finding he did violate the law.
ANSWER: jury nullification [or jury equity; or issuing perverse verdicts; accept word forms of “nullification” such as nullify]
[10e] Thanks to the prototypical “Philadelphia Lawyer” Andrew Hamilton, the jury nullified the libel charges brought in 1735 against this publisher of The New York Weekly Journal for the paper’s criticism of Governor William Cosby.
ANSWER: John Peter Zenger [accept Zenger case]
[10h] The year before Zenger’s case, his Weekly Journal published some libertarian “Reflections on Libelling” that became part of this influential essay collection. Up to half of colonial shelves might have held this collection of Commonwealthmen political thought, for which John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon used a classical pseudonym.
ANSWER: Cato’s Letters [or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious] (from which the Cato Institute gets its name)
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 67% | 100% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 33% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 40% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |