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The Appropriations Power And Sovereign Immunity, Paul F. Figley Jan 2009

The Appropriations Power And Sovereign Immunity, Paul F. Figley

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Discussions of sovereign immunity assume that the Constitution contains no explicit text regarding sovereign immunity. As a result, arguments about the existence - or nonexistence - of sovereign immunity begin with the English and American common-law doctrines. Exploring political, fiscal, and legal developments in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this Article shows that focusing on common-law developments is misguided. The common-law approach to sovereign immunity ended in the early 1700s. The Bankers’ Case (1690–1700), which is often regarded as the first modern common-law treatment of sovereign immunity, is in fact the last in the …


If It Didn't Exist, It Would Have To Be Invented - Reviving The Administrative Conference, Jeffrey Lubbers Jan 1998

If It Didn't Exist, It Would Have To Be Invented - Reviving The Administrative Conference, Jeffrey Lubbers

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