Eleventh Amendment

American  

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1795, that prohibited an individual from suing a state government in the federal courts.

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Example Sentences

But the judge said the Eleventh Amendment “prohibits a federal court from awarding declaratory or injunctive relief of the kind at issue against a state official based only on a violation of state law.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2023

He added: “But the Eleventh Amendment prohibits a federal court from awarding declaratory or injunctive relief of the kind at issue against a state official based only on a violation of state law.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Controversies Between a State, or the Citizens Thereof, and Foreign States, Citizens or Subjects The scope of this jurisdiction has been limited both by judicial decisions and the Eleventh Amendment.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel

Came the Eleventh Amendment, too, Providing that—but why tell you?

From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)

And when suits were brought by domestic or foreign creditors, state legislatures simply declined to pay and claimed immunity from federal pressure under the Eleventh Amendment to the National Constitution.

From Expansion and Conflict by Dodd, William E.