Citizen's Rule Book

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The Citizen's Rule Book is a ranty, quote mine-filled pamphelet published by, well, somebody (it's believed to have been written by a couple of white supremacists) espousing a Christian fundamentalist slant on governing the United States and a juror's right to engage in jury nullification.

As is often the case with propaganda literature involved with far-right groups, the Rule Book attempts to make a rather muddled case that the US Government is founded on Christian principles (the Ten Commandments appear quite prominently), and invokes all the usual bugbears of the 13th (abolition of slavery), 14th (full citizenship to all born in the US regardless of race) and 16th (income tax) amendments, even going so far as to question the validity of any Constitutional amendment since the 12th (added in 1803), as well as a brief attack on the 17th amendment (direct election of Senate). It is worth noting that the Rule Book does not present the Constitution (or, for that matter, the Declaration of Independence) in full, but only a commentary based on the writers' political slant.

WARNING: In cases where the Rule Book or the arguments espoused within it have been brought up, US courts have been known to dismiss jurors for having read the book on presumption of being lawless wingnut whackadoodles. You should read it anyway, on the presumption that it's better to know your enemy.

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