Comments on: Quick Con Law Question http://themoderatevoice.com/5528/quick-con-law-question/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 22:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: KipEsquire http://themoderatevoice.com/5528/quick-con-law-question/comment-page-1/#comment-421 KipEsquire Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:55:59 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/01/07/uncategorized/quick-con-law-question/#comment-421 Findlaw has very good annotations to every clause of the Constitution: <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article04/13.html#2" rel="nofollow">Article IV P-and-I</a> <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/02.html#1" rel="nofollow">Fourteenth Amendment P-or-I</a> Findlaw has very good annotations to every clause of the Constitution:

Article IV P-and-I

Fourteenth Amendment P-or-I

]]> By: Steve http://themoderatevoice.com/5528/quick-con-law-question/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Steve Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:54:32 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/01/07/uncategorized/quick-con-law-question/#comment-420 It's been a while since I took conlaw, but if I remember correctly, Congress passed the 11th amendment specifically to work against section II in article IV. After they saw the effect that had, granting near complete immunity to the states, they included the language stated in the 14th Amendment to limit the scope of the 11th Amendment. See Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer, 427 U.S. 445 It’s been a while since I took conlaw, but if I remember correctly, Congress passed the 11th amendment specifically to work against section II in article IV. After they saw the effect that had, granting near complete immunity to the states, they included the language stated in the 14th Amendment to limit the scope of the 11th Amendment.

See Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer, 427 U.S. 445

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