"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."
The seventh (VII) Amendment are your Civil Trial Rights. What that means is, if your trial is not a criminal trail- divorce, money etc. you don't need a judge, just a jury. The jury can make all decisions and once the decision is made a judge can't come in and overrule the jury.
The Amendment is important because it protects us from having our rights "abused" by the government. This way we do not go to jail for dumb charges. It also protects us from the government tyranny. Judges are government officials and could find us guilty due to what the prosecutor says, all because the government wanted to be tyrannical (even if you're not guilty).
One news story that links to the seventh amendment is, A black women won a case against her black manager for calling her the "n" word. The women won $280,000 in her civil case. The manager claimed it was out of "love" but the jury obviously decided differently.
Hannah Lewis
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