The Seventh Amendment

"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."

    This amendment is for federal courts, not state courts. It ensures that there are trials held for civil cases as well as criminal cases. This amendment also keeps the government from overturning the verdict a jury finds.


    I chose this video because it does a good job of explaining the amendment while also bringing other things in to help push the point of it. She mentioned how our founding fathers wrote this amendment because of the phrase "by the people for the people".



7th Amendment by Mitch Miner

    I chose this cartoon because it depicts the part of the amendment that tells there are allowed to be cases in front of a jury about civil cases.

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