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[Kevin Elliott]

At 23:16 -0600  on  3/21/01, Jim Choate wrote:
>That the one place 'common law' is mentioned in the Constitution it is in
>direct conflict with contemporanious English common law?

That sounds to me like they we're basicly satisfied with the rest of 
english common law...

>                                 Amendment VII
>
>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 reexamined in any Court of the United States,
>than according to the rules of the common law.

This brought to mind another interesting question.  When examining 
this amendment is the $20 in 1700's coinage or in current dollars? 
How much would that $20 be worth today anyway?
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