The Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment:

"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."

This amendment talks about sueing the states, and determining when it is appropriate to do so.  It also protects individual states from law suits involving other states and foreigners.


Read the article "Fight over execution rests for now on debate over who can be sued"

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/fight-over-execution-rests-now-debate-over-who-can-be-sued

Here is an exceprt from the article on the 11th amendment:

To better understand the 11th amendment, I looked to see how this was affecting the state of Missouri specifically.  In this case, "The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids most private federal lawsuits against states or state actors unless the state actor is doing something unconstitutional." To avoid being sued, the state must also act appropriatly.  With all rights, people and states must still appropriately conduct themselves.  

A simple but clear illustration of how citizens of states can not sue other states, especially pertaining to the situation at hand.