"Each jury is a little parliament. The jury sense is the parliamentary sense. I cannot see the one dying and the other surviving. The first object of any tyrant * * * would be to make Parliament utterly subservient to his will; and next to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for no tyrant could afford to leave a subject’s freedom in the hands of 12 of his countrymen. So that trial by jury is more than an instrument of justice and more than one wheel of the constitution; it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives."
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Trial by Jury (Stevens & Sons, 1956) as quoted by Russell B. Long in the U.S. Congressional Record — Senate (1 June 1964) p. 12305. Differently quoted in J. Kendall Few, In Defense of Trial by Jury, vol. 1 (American Jury Trial Foundation, 1993) p. 257: "The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives."
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Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
Patrick Arthur Devlin, Baron Devlin PC FBA (25 November 1905 – 9 August 1992) was a British judge and legal philosopher. The second-youngest English High Court judge in the 20th century, he served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1960 to 1964.
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