Happy Constitution Day! Did you know that the U.S. Constitution was nearly defeated over its failure to guarantee the right to a civil jury trial? The Seventh Amendment eventually fixed that.
Source: CJ&D Fact Sheet, Safeguarding a Pillar of American Freedom - An Historical Primer on the Right to Jury Trial in Civil Cases
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