What does amendment 7 mean?

Answer 1

the Seventh Amendment guarantees the right of trial by jury in almost all common-law suits.

Answer 2

Amendment 7

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The trial by jury clause says that you reserve the right to be judged by a fair and non biased based group of people. Back in the older times, what the king said went, and if he said chop off your hands for stealing bread then so be it. We have today a jury to judge you. They know nothing about the situation, nothing about you, have nothing against you or FOR the person you are opposing. This means you have a fair chance, that these people will only be judging you on the evidence alone and not personal feelings about you.

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"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." Basically, it means you have the right to a jury trial for certain civil cases.

Answer 6

the 7th amendment "preserves" the right to jury trial

so basically, if you would have gotten a jury trial in england around the signing of the constitution, you get a jury trial today

Answer 7

Most people are answering your question referring to the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states:

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.

"Common law" refers to part of the English "common law" system (as compared to the "civil law" or "Roman" systems that dominate central and southern Europe). These suits "at law" basically referred to suits for money damages (as opposed to lawsuits for injunctions, which were traditionally suits "in equity" which did not provide a jury trial right). So, under the federal constitution, you have a jury trial right for all suits "at law" for more than $20.

Interestingly, this is one of the rights in the Constitution that have not been "incorporated" by the Fourteenth Amendment to apply to the states. Thus, you can force people into state court, small claims actions for a small amount of money without any jury trial right. The Amendment applies only to suits in federal court. (However, not every lawsuit may be brought in federal court, and there is a monetary jurisdictional floor of $75,000 for "diversity" suits--that is, suits between people of different states. Thus, the only time the Seventh Amendement truly applies is related to suits in federal court under a "federal question," that is a lawsuit based on a federal law, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, or 42 U.S.C. 1983, another civil rights act for deprivation of civil rights by government employees).

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/conlaw/incorp.htm

The second clause "no fact tried by a jury...," means that a court cannot "reexamine" a jury's verdict except by the rules established at common law (which allowed judges to "direct" jury verdicts or overturn verdicts that were the result of "passion and prejudice," etc.)

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