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To: WhiskeyPapa
Not even implicitly. What a joke.

Ya think?

The 11th Amendment overturned Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall. 419, (1793).
The 14th Amendment overturned Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393, (1857).
The 16th Amendment overturned Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 158 U. S. 601, (1895).
The 26th Amendment overturned Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U. S. 112, (1970).

In the case of the 11th Amendment, the resolution that became the 11th was introduced the day after the decision, and final vote occurred little more than two months later (the Senate voted 23 to 2; the House 81 to 9), and was ratified within 10 months.

But of course, as usual, ad infinitum and ad nauseam, you merely assert that no one ever rejected or overturned Chisholm.

Try this:

"That decision was made in the case of Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall. 419, and created such a shock of surprise throughout the country that, at the first meeting of Congress thereafter, the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution was almost unanimously proposed, and was in due course adopted by the legislatures of the States. This amendment, expressing the will of the ultimate sovereignty of the whole country, superior to all legislatures and all courts, actually reversed the decision of the Supreme Court."
Justice Bradley, Hans v. Louisiana, 134 U.S. 1, (1890)
Now, regarding your oft repeated assertion that the specious Chisholm decision was never overturned, Justice Joseph P. Bradley and numerous US Supreme Courts disagree.
1,238 posted on 11/29/2002 2:41:23 PM PST by 4CJ
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Ya think?

The 11th Amendment overturned Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall. 419, (1793).

I think the 11th amendment does nothing to counter the words of Chief Justice Jay:

"By this great compact however, many prerogatives were transferred to the national Government, such as those of making war and peace, contracting alliances, coining money, etc."

Jay was a federalist. One thing is certain; enough Americans adopted Jay's view so that the Union of these state has remained inviolate. In fact, President Lincoln's call for volunteers in 1861 was filled to overflowing and later he could say: "Our resources are unexhausted, and are as we think, inexhaustible."

Walt

1,239 posted on 11/29/2002 7:27:50 PM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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