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The Bill of Rights - Seventh Amendment

In honor of the 230th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights and week 7, the Seventh Amendment:

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.

This amendment preserves the right to a trial by a jury in civil cases and prohibits judges from overturning the determinations of a jury except as otherwise permitted under the common law.