Amendment VII
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.
1. | Giles Duncombe, Tryals per Pais, 1665 |
2. | William Blackstone, Commentaries, 3:349--67, 370--81, 383--85, 1768 |
3. | Virginia Declaration of Rights, sec. 11, 12 June 1776 |
4. | Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, SEC. 25 |
5. | New Jersey Constitution of 1776, ART. 22 |
6. | Georgia Constitution of 1777, ARTS. 40--43 |
7. | Federal Farmer, no. 4, 12 Oct. 1787 |
8. | A Democratic Federalist, 17 Oct. 1787 |
9. | Debate in Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 7, 11 Dec. 1787 |
10. | James Iredell, Marcus, Answers to Mr. Mason's Objections to the New Constitution, 1788 |
11. | Federal Farmer, no. 16, 20 Jan. 1788 |
12. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 83, 558--74, 28 May 1788 |
13. | Thomas Jefferson to the Abbé Arnoux, 19 July 1789 |
14. | Georgia v. Brailsford |
15. | Reason v. Bridges |
16. | Mima Queen v. Hepburn |
17. | Bank of Columbia v. Okely |
18. | United States v. Rose |
19. | United States v. Rathbone |
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