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Amendment VII: Jury trials in civil cases
In plain English
Guarantees a jury in many federal civil lawsuits (the original text says those worth over $20), and facts a jury decides can't easily be re-tried.
Original text
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.
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Source: National Archives