    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 115th Congress]
    [115th Congress]
    [House Document 114-192]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 94-95]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                           AMENDMENT XI.\2\

    Sec. 218. Extent of the judicial power.

      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.
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      \2\The 11th amendment to the Constitution of the United
    States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the
    Third Congress on March 11, 1794; and was declared in a message from the
    President to Congress dated the 8th of January, 1798, to have been
    ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States. The dates
    of ratification were: New York, March 27, 1794; Rhode Island, March 31,
    1794; Connecticut, May 8, 1794; New Hampshire, June 16, 1794;
    Massachusetts, June 26, 1794; Vermont, October 28, 1794; Virginia,
    November 18, 1794; Georgia, November 29, 1794; Kentucky, December 7,
    1794; Maryland, December 26, 1794; Delaware, January 23, 1795; North
    Carolina, February 7, 1795. Ratification was completed on February 7,
    1795. The amendment was subsequently ratified by South Carolina,
    December 4, 1797. New Jersey and Pennsylvania did not take action on the
    amendment.