Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (Jeff Daiell) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Presumption Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 90 11:49:58 GMT Organization: FICC [but opinions my own!] Lines: 17 In article <9008292257.AA23568@world.std.com>, bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: > > Actually, no such phrase occurs in the US Constitution, I don't know > where it's written to check the phrasing against. It's also often > referred to as "Presumption of Innocence". > He's right, although it is *implied* in a few of the Amendments. But does anyone know what the Constitutions of the various States and Commonwealths of The Union say, respectively, on this subject? Jeff -- "There's a place in the sun Where there's hope for everyone ... Gonna find me a place in the sun."