HSRP-686
The jury's decline runs in one direction on the figures and no counter-instance for it is recorded
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
The jury's decline runs in one direction on the figures and no counter-instance for it is recorded
Cited on: /sovereign-citizens, THE 1775 GRIEVANCE AND TODAY'S COURTS. Entered 2026-10-19 by item G as re-derived. THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "ESTABLISHED as observed; a plea is a waiver made with counsel, no law has removed the jury, and a coercive penalty for going to trial has not yet been found". ITEM G's SPINE: line 177 had applied the WHOLE-RECORD test (hallmark 26, PARTLY) to the JURY question. Hallmark 26 rests on the record as a whole, so its counter-instances are about other conditions. This record carries the jury question; HSRP-672 keeps the design question at AUTHOR'S POSITION. Neither governs the other. THE OPEN QUESTION THIS SECTION LEAVES, and the highest-value one it has: a COERCIVE PENALTY FOR GOING TO TRIAL. The figures establish the pattern; a mechanism is what stands between the pattern and a design claim. If one is established, HSRP-672's grade changes materially. It is in the literature and has NOT been searched.
3. What it rests on
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About 20 percent of federal civil cases were tried in 1938; 0.4 percent in the year to 30 September 2025; 97.7 percent of those sentenced in federal court in 2025 had pleaded guilty. The figures are published on EVIDENCE OF THE BREACH at hallmark 6, "Forms kept while the substance moved" (PRESENT, KNOWN).
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Measured 2026-10-19: no counter-instance for the jury is recorded anywhere on this site — no year against the trend and no statute restoring it. /evidence-of-the-breach carries 0 sentences pairing a jury or plea with a reversal word; hallmark 26's three counter-instances (the Federal Register, an ended emergency, rulings against the executive) carry no jury content.
Source: none linked in the register
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
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SRC-203 · PRIORITY · Declaration of Independence — Continental Congress (1776)
Pinpoint: not recorded · Access: Access status not recorded2026-09-22, VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT at the National Archives transcript and quoted on /pv-remediation. STRUCTURAL POINT RECORDED: the trial-by-jury grievance is not free-standing. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:" is one of the particulars listed under the charge that the King "has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws" — so the Declaration itself files it as a JURISDICTIONAL grievance. The Halifax practice appears in the same list as "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences". THE ORDINAL IS NOT CARRIED: the brief cited this as "Grievance 18", but the Declaration numbers nothing, enumerations differ by convention, and two independent counts here produced different ordinals. The page quotes the text and names its parent clause instead. PINPOINTS from /the-righteous-and-the-corrupt-sovereign: the second paragraph, governments instituted "to secure these rights", the long train of abuses "pursuing invariably the same Object", the right to alter or abolish a government destructive of these ends, "light and transient causes", and "let Facts be submitted to a candid world"; the grievance on judges made dependent on the King's will alone; and the petition paragraph, "In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms". ALL SEVEN VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03 against the National Archives transcription. PINPOINTS from /evidence-of-the-breach: eleven quotations - "To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."; the standing-armies, judges, taxes, trial-by-jury and abdication grievances; "a long train of abuses and usurpations"; "pursuing invariably the same Object" and the single word "invariably"; "Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury."; and "evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism". ALL VERIFIED AT SOURCE BY CONTENT 2026-10-03 against the National Archives transcription. The two grievance lines end with colons in the original, which the page omits. ALSO CITED ON /two-party-hive-mind for the fact that a Congress declared independence in 1776. NO WORDS OF THE DECLARATION ARE QUOTED on that page. SOVEREIGN CITIZENS block, 2026-10-18: S114 cites this record. PINPOINTS: "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"; "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:"; and "He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;". S114-AMEND CLEARS S114's two open elements: the URL is the National Archives transcription (https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript, "The spelling and punctuation reflect the original"), read this pass, and the entry's "Not yet verified." flag is withdrawn for the two sentences read there.
5. Counter-evidence
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Hallmark 6's own limits, which travel with the figures: a plea is a waiver made with counsel; no law has removed the jury; a coercive penalty for going to trial has not yet been found.
Source: none linked in the register
6. Why this grade
ESTABLISHED as observed, on the figures and on the absence of any recorded counter-instance for the jury; the three limits travel with it — a plea is a waiver made with counsel, no law has removed the jury, and a coercive penalty for going to trial has not yet been found
The register defines ESTABLISHED as: Supported directly by primary texts or published findings.
7. Correction history
No correction events are recorded. The entry's status is ACTIVE: no later entry amends, supersedes or withdraws it.
Later entries that mention this observation: HSRP-672.
8. Related observations
- HSRP-671 · ESTABLISHED · Trials, and jury trials above all, have become rare in federal civil and criminal cases; that summary judgment is unconstitutional is contestedRelation: not recorded
- HSRP-672 · AUTHOR'S POSITION · The decline of the jury repeats the design the colonists namedRelation: not recorded
- HSRP-409 · WORKING · THE GRIEVANCE HALLMARKS IN THE UNITED STATES (hallmarks 1 to 22). PRESENT, on four bodies of evidence: standing emergency power (52 national emergencies in effect on 16 September 2026, the oldest declared in 1979, one ever ended by Congress; Brennan Center count; 50 U.S.C. §1622); forms kept while the substance moved (about 20 percent of federal civil cases tried in 1938, 0.4 percent in the year to 30 September 2025, and 97.7 percent of those sentenced in fiscal 2025 on a guilty plea; Smith and MacQueen 2017, U.S. Courts Table 4.10, U.S. Sentencing Commission Table 12, Lafler v. Cooper); a levy without the legislature, as one completed act since corrected (Learning Resources v. Trump, 20 February 2026); and property taken before conviction (Justice Department Inspector General, 2017 review and audit 26-013). PARTLY, fifteen hallmarks, among them force used at home without an identified authority (Trump v. Illinois), officers made removable at will (Trump v. Slaughter), a rate of inflation set by announced policy (FOMC 2012 and 2025), debt projected at 175 percent of GDP by 2056 (CBO, 24 September 2026), a usury cap given to servicemembers only (10 U.S.C. §987; 12 U.S.C. §5517(o)), persons held for removal by category (A.A.R.P. v. Trump) and a disaster workforce reduced after warning (GAO-26-108427). NOT YET FOUND, three: the decisive steps (a constitution suspended, executive law set above it, an institution abolished); proof loosened, counsel withheld or punishment made retroactive; opinion or petition punished. Each is not yet found, and it is not yet known whether it will be found. Each historical text and each official record quoted is established as a document; that it matches the hallmark is the project's reading. Court rulings are recorded as facts of conduct. Surveys (Pew) and election results (Ballotpedia) are recorded as context only.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- Sovereign Citizens“The jury's decline runs in one direction on the figures and no counter-instance for it is recorded — about 20 percent of federal civil cases tried in 1938 against 0.4 percent in the year to 30 September 2025, and 97.7 percent of those sentenced in federal court in 2025 having pleaded guilty — ESTABLISHED as observed, on the figures and on the absence of any recorded counter-instance for the jury; the three limits travel with it — a plea is a waiver made with counsel, no law has removed the jury, and a coercive penalty for going to trial has not yet been found”
Pages citing a source this observation rests on: /collapse-of-nations, /entheogens, /evidence-of-the-breach, /freemasons, /legal-self-disclaimer, /national-security-notice, /natural-law, /pv-remediation, /sovereign-citizens, /the-righteous-and-the-corrupt-sovereign, /two-party-hive-mind, /united-states, /your-duty.
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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