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The trial by jury amendment preserves the rights to a jury trial. It also eliminates double jeopardy, a person can only be tried once. It also stated that the maximum that a judge can hear a case on without a jury is 20 dollars, a large sum at the time of its passing.
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∙ 12y agoin suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the rights of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the united states, than according to the rules of the common law.
^ that's not the meaning, it IS the amendment ^
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