The laws that send a man to his death on the deposition of a single witness are fatal to freedom. Reason requires two, because a witness who asserts and an accused who denies make a tie, and there must be a third to decide it.
The Greeks1 and the Romans2 required an additional voice in order to condemn. Our French laws require two. The Greeks claimed that their practice had been established by the gods,3 but it is ours.