Limiting or eliminating the right to a trial by jury is a goal of tyrants

 Trial by jury is a cornerstone of a free society, yet UK Justice Secretary David Lammy is attempting to restrict the use of juries in England and Wales. He has proposed limiting jury trials to only the most serious offences while scrapping jury trials for crimes carrying sentences of up to three years.

The move against jury trials reflects a growing trend among modern governments and legislators – not only in the United Kingdom, but in many other places – to assert their own authority over the constitutional order in exaggerated and destructive ways, David Thunder writes.

To quote Lord Patrick Devlin: “The first object of any tyrant … would be to make Parliament utterly subservient to his will; and the next to overthrow or diminish trial by jury.”...<<<Read More>>>...