7th Amendment
7th amendment
7th amendment summary by akeem campbell
the 7th amendment is that if something was stolen or destroyed that cost 20 dollars or more you can the right of trial by jury can be preserved but now it is way more money than that because 20 dollars was worth alot of money in the 1700s. the second part is important because it clearly states that the power to convict or not to convict rest with a jury of your peers, not the government. It is yet another check on government power.
supreme court cases for the 7th amendment
On September 12, 1787, as the Convention was in its final stages, Mr. Williamson of North Carolina ‘‘observed to the House that no provision was yet made for juries in Civil cases and suggested the necessity of it".
7th amendment description :)
"The Seventh Amendment serves to ensure that civil litigants are entitled to jury trials, much as the Sixth Amendment gives criminal defendants the right to be tried by a jury of peers. The amendment originated when it was noted near the end of the Constitutional Convention that no provision had yet been made for juries in civil cases. An attempt to add the provision was defeated, but the guarantee to the right of a jury in civil cases was one of the amendments urged on Congress by the ratifying conventions. The Seventh Amendment was finally passed without debate".