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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in 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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Do you mean "repealed"? It was the amendment that banned alcohol---14th? maybe.
The 27th Amendment, it took 202 years, 7 months and 12 days for the 27th amendment to be ratified. It was initially submitted to state legislatures for ratification on September 25, 1789 and was completed on May 7, 1992.
The word slander isn't in the first amendment but the definition is a malicious, false, and defamatory statement.
The fourteenth amendment (ratified 7/9/1868) --Guarantees rights of citizenship to all persons born in the United States.