Doomed: The crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia (left to right) are David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, William McCool and Ilan Ramon. Disaster: Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas, Saturday on February 1, 2003.
The Seventh Amendment is important because it protects us from having our rights abused by the government. It ensures that the government cannot simply railroad us into prison on flimsy charges. By doing so, it protects us from government tyranny.
SEVENTH AMENDMENT: 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.