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. The Seventh Amendment continues a practice from English common law of distinguishing civil claims which must be tried before a jury (absent waiver by the parties) from claims and issues that may be heard by a judge alone.