People don't realize this, but police are a foreign concept. America didn't start with police. It was a concept taken from Europe and imported into Boston at first, I believe.
We can absolutely go back the way things were.
Citizens enforce the law.
Citizens can act in the stead of the prosecutor to bring charges against others.
Juries absolutely determine what laws to even bother trying to enforce in the first place. If you can't get a jury that would convict someone, don't bother with wasting the judge's time.
It used to be that law was something that came from the PEOPLE, not the government. The government was simply the place where laws were normalized and aggregated. People sent representatives to government to make sure that the laws reflected the laws that they lived by, not the other way around.
When you traveled from location to location, you had to be wary to observe whatever laws the people there lived by. If you felt like they were not respecting your constitutional rights, you could go ahead and try to rectify the situation by appealing to the local courts -- run by local judges, with local lawyers and local juries. Or you could try appealing to a higher authority, which never accomplished anything because there was no money for that sort of thing and besides people needed votes to get elected.
That means that every square inch of God's green earth in America was watched over and protected by a man and his rifle. The law was what he said it was, and if there was a disagreement over that, you'd best stay off his land.
People don't realize this, but police are a foreign concept. America didn't start with police. It was a concept taken from Europe and imported into Boston at first, I believe.
We can absolutely go back the way things were.
It used to be that law was something that came from the PEOPLE, not the government. The government was simply the place where laws were normalized and aggregated. People sent representatives to government to make sure that the laws reflected the laws that they lived by, not the other way around.
When you traveled from location to location, you had to be wary to observe whatever laws the people there lived by. If you felt like they were not respecting your constitutional rights, you could go ahead and try to rectify the situation by appealing to the local courts -- run by local judges, with local lawyers and local juries. Or you could try appealing to a higher authority, which never accomplished anything because there was no money for that sort of thing and besides people needed votes to get elected.
That means that every square inch of God's green earth in America was watched over and protected by a man and his rifle. The law was what he said it was, and if there was a disagreement over that, you'd best stay off his land.