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 @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
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| CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Thompson et al. | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| throw away your cards, rally in the streets | UBC | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |