Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment may refer to the:

  • Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, which clarifies judicial power over foreign nationals and limits the ability of citizens to sue states
  • Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which permits the state to ratify the Maastricht Treaty
  • Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

Famous quotes containing the words eleventh and/or amendment:

    “I was thinking of a son.
    The womb is not a clock
    nor a bell tolling,
    but in the eleventh month of its life
    I feel the November
    of the body as well as of the calendar.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)