《美利堅合眾國憲法》第七修正案（英語：Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution）簡稱「第七修正案」（Amendment VII），是美國權利法案的一部分，它規定了陪審團制度的權威性，於1791年12月15日生效。
內容
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.
- 譯文：在普通法的訴訟中，其爭執價額超過二十美元，由陪審團審判的權利應受到保護。由陪審團裁決的事實，合眾國的任何法院除非按照普通法規則，不得重新審查。
附註
註：1800年時的二十美元，幣值相當於約2020年時的三百美元
註釋
- Baicker-McKee, Steven; William M. Janssen; and John B. Corr (2008) [1997]. A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Thomson West.
- Beeman, Richard (2009). Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. Random House.
- Labunski, Richard E. (2006). James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of Rights. Oxford University Press.
- Levy, Leonard Williams (1995). Seasoned Judgments: The American Constitution, Rights, and History. Transaction Publishers.
- Maier, Pauline (2010). Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788. Simon and Schuster.
- Wolfram, Charles W. (1973). "The Constitutional History of the Seventh Amendment", 57 Minnesota Law Review 639, 670-71.
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