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Beers with our Founding Fathers

the Bill of Rights. This Seventh Amendment specifically provides

that a civil trial may also be heard by a jury. The jury is also of the
community peers and also for the same impartial reasons as

provided in the criminal rights based Sixth Amendment. Although a
person’s rights and freedoms are not subject to suspension, as with

criminal charges and convictions, in civil cases a person’s assets and
personal wealth is subject to satisfying any judgment. Therefore,

the concept of a fair and impartial trial by jury extends by this
amendment to civil trials.

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