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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn Jaunary 8, 1798 the 11th Amendment to the Constitution was officially ratified when President Adams
announced that it was now deemed part of the Constitution.
That's the precedent for today's announcement.

MichMan
(14,691 posts)It was ratified by the states less than one year after passing congress, not forty years after the established deadline
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,671 posts)that rescinded their ratifications?
Quiet Em
(1,740 posts)Polybius
(19,625 posts)Of Amendments? I'm still seeing 27.
Polybius
(19,625 posts)And of course, you are 100% correct.
LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)The Judicial power of the United States shall 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 State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
International law scholar Thomas H. Lee argues that foreign states were intended to be excluded from the Eleventh Amendment's prohibition—i.e., that foreign governments would still be permitted to sue state governments.[14] However, in Principality of Monaco v. Mississippi, 292 U.S. 313 (1934), the Supreme Court ruled that the amendment also protects states from lawsuits by foreign entities, which Lee considers a departure from established jurisprudence;[15] his thesis is that the Eleventh Amendment exempted foreign governments in order to allow recourse for violations of treaty obligations, which in turn promoted positive and peaceful foreign relations between a fledgling U.S. and the international community.[15] Lee likewise argues that the Eleventh Amendment reflected the international legal principle of sovereign equality, whereby foreign states were of equal legal status to the U.S. states, and as such could bring lawsuits.[16]
mahatmakanejeeves
(64,004 posts)(Added Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 2(b), 65 Stat. 710; amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(d), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2291.)
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