I say #3 because the exercise is to remove two of the first 10. This isn’t an easy task, but we have to choose. My thinking is that of those 10, there has never been a case on #3, and as far as I know, it’s never happened since the government has been adopted. So if we have to remove some, #3 seems like a pretty good candidate to me.
#7 is my second choice because, again, we are dealing with the lesser of evils here. I tend to think jury trials in civil cases are overrated, and the elimination of them might actually help to lessen some of the large verdicts that we’ve seen in the past few decades. OTOH, it gives even more power to life-tenure federal judges, but that risk seems to me like the least bad risk compared to removing some of the other amendments.
Also, for purposes of this exercise, I’ve interpreted the assignment to remove an entire amendment—not just a clause.