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| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1859 - 794 pages
...sister States, as was clearly indicated by an amendment to the constitution, expressly providing that " the judicial power of the United States should not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another... | |
| John C. Devereux - Law - 1868 - 444 pages
...nature.0 Sili. /* «-ff^^^~ (>. What amendment was made in regard to the judicial power in 1T94?— 297. It was declared by the amendment that the judicial...United States should not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States, by citizens of another... | |
| Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...in 1794, proposed an amendment to the constitution, which was subsequently adopted. It was provided by the amendment, that the Judicial power of the United States should not extend to any suit in law or equity against one of the United States by citizens of another state,... | |
| Charles Burr Todd - Washington (D.C.) - 1889 - 464 pages
...litigation, that in March, 1794, the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution was passed, which declared that the judicial power of the United States should not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - Constitutional history - 1895 - 370 pages
...in fact, the first real amendment ^Toi ment of that instrument— providing that the conBtitution. judicial power of the United States should not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - Constitutional history - 1895 - 352 pages
...the first real amendmrat ^TThe ment of that instrument— providing that the constitution. judiciai power of the United States should not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...citizens of another State,"5 and between it and foreign citizens or subjects. Henceforth, the judiciary power of the United States should not be construed "to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens cf another... | |
| Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional history - 1904 - 350 pages
...federal authority, however, was avoided by the adoption of a constitutional amendment declaring that the judicial power of the United States should not be construed to extend to suits brought against the States by citizens of other States. From this dispute the Federal Government... | |
| James Wilford Garner - Illinois - 1911 - 426 pages
...future. As a result of this demand, the Eleventh Amendment was adopted in 1798 which declared that the judicial power of the United States should not be construed to extend to suits brought against a state by citizens of another state or of a foreign country. Nevertheless while... | |
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