Shortly before the events of 1848, Josef Ignaz Gundermann published a treatise on the origin of the jury in England. He outlines a more single-stranded development than Köstlin's ‘Combinationstheorie’, a development that breaks at the Norman Conquest, unlike the gradual emergence from the oath-helpers of Germanic antiquity to the jurors of the age of Henry II to modern times described by G.L. von Maurer. Nevertheless, like Köstlin and Maurer, Gundermann looks to developments in the laws of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England as relevant to the legal situation of modern Germany, and, in a spirit of Germanic nationalist superiority, involves the French Revolution, in a vague phrase. More clearly he involves the steady English striving to advance civil liberty culminating in what Dickens called ‘England's great and glorious Revolution’ of 1688. Gundermann says:

It is not our concern here to understand some foreign and uninteresting legal institution, but to understand by that means the constitution of a country that alone among the Germanic countries has manifested a steady national development …, and that has overcome feudalism without overthrowing it, whose Revolution was an act very different, especially in respect of its legal system, from the French Revolution.