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 is another one of those amendments that isn't taken seriously at face value, but we wouldn't want to live in a world without it. Judges in courts are in effect agents of the government, but most of us don't' see them that way because they are not politicians. But if the judges and politicians ever banded together to hurt individuals, they could do a lot of damage. Whats the point of the previous amendments, if you took the government to court over financial losses and the judge just dismissed your case?
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=168611&title=asylum-sentence
I think this video kind of shows how easily someone could get ripped off by an aristocratic judge that doesn't care about the people. Thankfully the 7th amendment promises us we will be judged BY the people not only in criminal cases, but significant financial cases too.
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