168 judicial procedures modifications. To Chief Coke, Justice and principles begin with, one of the the with a little British system, greatest English Jurists, wrote at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century; ‘The reason of the law is the life of the law, for tho’ a man can tell the law, yet if he knows not the reason thereof, he shall soon forget his superficial knowledge, but when he findeth the right reason of the law and so bringeth it to his natural reason that he comprehended it as his own, this will not only serve him for the understanding of that particular case but of many others.’ (Historical Introduction to English Law, Co. Litt., f.183b). If we look at the foundations of the English legal system, we find that the Judiciary as an independent third branch of the State still survives as an ideal, though not as part of the British constitution. Whatever critics of Dicey’s theory of the ‘Rule of Law’ may say of our time and generation, it cannot be doubted that the common law played a tremendous part in the events which led up to the