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* CRS Annotated Constitution: Seventh Amendment
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Constitution and Seventh
Jury trials in criminal cases were a protected right in the original United States Constitution and the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments of the US Constitution extend the rights to trial by jury to include the right to jury trial for both criminal and civil matters and a grand jury for serious cases.
The Seventh Amendment ( Amendment VII ) to the United States Constitution, which was ratified as part of the Bill of Rights, codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases, and asserts that cases may not be re-examined by another court.
It includes a set of guarantees of civil rights, the " Seventh Guarantee " being analogous to the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and its protection against self-incrimination.
Internationally, it helped influence the Massachusetts Body of Liberties, and is seen as a predecessor to the Third, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
* Seventh Generation Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U. S. Constitution to put ecologically sensitive areas under government control
At the Seventh ( Special ) Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Ninth Convocation on October 7, 1977, the third and last Soviet Constitution, also known as the Brezhnev Constitution, was unanimously adopted.
The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that no fact having been tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examinable in any court of the United States or of any state than according to the rules of law.
This principle is enshrined in the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides that "... 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.
The Seventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland provided that the procedure for the election of six members of the Senate by university graduates could be altered by law.
It was effected by the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1979 which was approved by referendum on 5 July 1979 and signed into law on the 3 August of the same year.
The Act was introduced under Entry 2 of List 1 in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India ; the same entry as for the Army, Navy and Air Force Acts.
These rules must be construed in light of the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, which preserves a right to jury trial in most actions at common law ( as opposed to equity cases ).
The Act came into effect at the same time as the Constitution ( Seventh Amendment ) Act, 1956, which ( amongst other things ) restructured the constitutional framework for India's existing states.
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