america's favorite f-words: "founding fathers"

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.

The question i have is, what does twenty 1789 dollars come out to be in today's currency?

Oh, and another question: why twenty dollars?

america's favorite f-words: "founding fathers"

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.

The question i have is, what does twenty 1789 dollars come out to be in today's currency?

Oh, and another question: why twenty dollars?

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Christ, all of a sudden there's this rush of music that i want to get.  And i have a backpile on my wishlist of stuff i must have.  Something's gotta give...

She Wants Revenge has a very familiar sound, and if i may dip into the cliché bag, it's because they wear their influences on their sleeve.  Some would call them derivative, but i think that they do a fine job in making music which provenance is recognizable but also clearly displays their own voice.  You can listen to four of their songs and watch a video on this Flash-driven page, there's two more videos on their Betrayal page, and there's two more songs at their MySpace page.  Their show at the Great American Music Hall next week is already sold out, unfortunately.

From the new, to the old... and i do mean old, because damn, David Gilmour has aged a lot, judging by the video clip on Amazon's page for his new album, which will be out next week.  It sounds, well, like you'd expect a David Gilmour album to sound.  I can pick out that guitar sound out of a lineup.  But there's a lot of passion in what i've heard so far, and that's a good thing.  He, too, has been keeping a Weblog, which you may find at davidgilmour.

more music

Christ, all of a sudden there's this rush of music that i want to get.  And i have a backpile on my wishlist of stuff i must have.  Something's gotta give...

She Wants Revenge has a very familiar sound, and if i may dip into the cliché bag, it's because they wear their influences on their sleeve.  Some would call them derivative, but i think that they do a fine job in making music which provenance is recognizable but also clearly displays their own voice.  You can listen to four of their songs and watch a video on this Flash-driven page, there's two more videos on their Betrayal page, and there's two more songs at their MySpace page.  Their show at the Great American Music Hall next week is already sold out, unfortunately.

From the new, to the old... and i do mean old, because damn, David Gilmour has aged a lot, judging by the video clip on Amazon's page for his new album, which will be out next week.  It sounds, well, like you'd expect a David Gilmour album to sound.  I can pick out that guitar sound out of a lineup.  But there's a lot of passion in what i've heard so far, and that's a good thing.  He, too, has been keeping a Weblog, which you may find at davidgilmour.