The Seventh Amendment

"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twentydollars, 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 Amendment sets the limit for the amount of money a case needs to be dealing with to be a federal case tried by a jury. Today the amount has to exceed 75,000 dollars before a case is to be tried federally by a jury. This Amendment is important, because if a bar wasn't set for amount of money a case has to be dealing with to require a trial by jury then there would be thousands of cases needing trial by jury, and the judicial system couldn't handle it

This is just a picture of a 20 dollar bill. It represents the 20 dollar bar that the Constitution set for the right to trial by a jury. Because of inflation we need the Judicial Branch to constantly raise the bar. The fact that they are able to adapt this Amendment to the current times is very important for the health of our judicial system.