Literature/United States Congress/The Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights

United States Congress, Proposed 1789, ratified 1791

Amendment VII

Article the ninth, as proposed

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.