The 7th Amendment and its Importance in the American Legal System
Words: 1254 1603Entwined within the labyrinthine depths of the Bill of Rights lies the enigmatic and often disregarded 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution, an arcane codex fortifying the sacrosanct privilege of a jury trial in select civil proceedings. Consecrated on the fifteenth day of December in the year 1791, it articulates thus: "In litigations at customary law, where the pecuniary value under contention shall surpass twenty dollars, the entitlement to trial by jury shall be preserved, and no verity adjudicated […]