Hank Johnson: “I thank the chairman for the time today to speak on the FAIR Act, and I ask my fellow colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this…”

“I thank the chairman for the time today to speak on the FAIR Act, and I ask my fellow colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this bill. My colleagues and I on the other side of the aisle will disagree on much, but on one thing we can all agree, and that is the Constitution of the United States of America is a great document. At the beginning of that document is the preamble, and the first 17 words of the preamble read as follows: ``We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice,'' and then it goes on. But you can see at the very top, the ideal of the Founders was to establish justice in this country. {time} 1245 So they went about the Constitution by giving power to the legislative branch in Article I, to the executive branch in Article Number II, and to the judicial branch, the Court system, to establish justice in Article III. And then, in the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution where the Bill of Rights for we, the people, gave us our individual rights, with the exception of Amendment 10, which gives the States all powers not reserved to the Federal Government. So the Bill of Rights, in the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution, it guarantees the right to a jury trial, a trial by a jury of one's peers for any civil case where the amount in controversy exceeds $20 or more. That is still the law in this country. That is our Constitution.…”