“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In 1793, a controversial Supreme Court opinion convinced Congress to amend the Constitution to provide a more explicit safeguard for federalism. Indeed, even Federalists considered the majority opinion in Chisholm v. Georgia as an overt example of overreach by the...
Today in 1795, the 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified by the necessary number of states. The move came after an intensely controversial opinion in the 1793 case of Chisholm v. Georgia, where the Jay Court suggested that the states had no...
