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Amendment XI
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.
Of note is that this amendment *only* covers cases where a citizen sues a *single* state, not 49 of them. There is no Constitutional rule that covers the process between a individual and more than a single state. It simply ain't there. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199712290504.XAA00440@einstein.ssz.com>, on 12/29/97 at 12:04 AM, Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> said:
Of note is that this amendment *only* covers cases where a citizen sues a *single* state, not 49 of them.
There is no Constitutional rule that covers the process between a individual and more than a single state. It simply ain't there.
Well considering that the Constitution is a *limiting* document, if the powers are not explicitly given to the Federal Government they don't have them. Soooo, in the case of a citizen sues multiple states the Federal Government still has no juristiction as they have never explicitly been given that power. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNKe1Fo9Co1n+aLhhAQHcmAQAwXaoWdS/llFXNBqJhzEISlX8uGlzoTbl X14NV29B3DJPDUypjixV4WdPNhHTKqvVgwApO7k5vc3qqSgVidPfyAv06/+XtXLB /l+vIFi/NAgVlm+RPI6Z5najruZamRMilUGSJRP05Y/+nJBSo0v/2sznAqzD8L0u PdCQQQobEaU= =BsJX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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