Saturday, November 12, 2011

Amendment Seven

"In Suits at common law, where the value in conroversy 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."

What the seventh amendment means to me is it has the right to a trial by jury. A group of your peers will be used to determine your guilt in a particular case of either guilty or not-guilty. "The 7th Amendment was added to the Constitution because citizens were concerned about the right for a trial by jury." The 7th Amendment guaranteed the right for civil law trials by jury. It also guaranteed the right to an appeal to federal courts.

 

                 
This picture represents the seventh amendment because if you steal or do something that is more than twenty dollars, then you have the right to have a jury to try you, instead of a judge.

This video really shows how important the seventh amendment is because in the video it showed how the innocent lady got accused for something she really did not do and as you can see this could happen to anyone and innocent people get accused of things they really did not do.  It's important to have someone to affend yourself then to just have one person to decide your guilt.

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