The 7th amendment,all i know is that it guarantees an accused person of the right to have the trail of jury. I need to know more about this cause i have to present tomorrow as a class project so i need to know five Sentences that explain the freedom or rights protected by this amendment?
The first link gives you some detailed background to how the Amendment has been used, and how it has evolved.
The second link shows how various requirements are met under the Amendment.
And there are a couple of key items in the second law. First, judges cannot overturn the verdict of a jury in the absence of common law provisions. And that, I assume would include jury tampering. And juries are supposed to be impartial.
And when one sees the terms common law, one of the most important ones comes from English common law: innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. And affirmed by the US Supreme Court "The law presumes that persons charged with crime are innocent until they are proven by competent evidence to be guilty" in 1895. Coffin v. United States, 156 U.S. 432 (1895), was an appellate case before the United States Supreme Court in 1895 which established the presumption of innocence of persons accused of crimes.
But is it directly applicable to the 7th amendment? It has roots in what the jury can be told about regarding their deliberations.