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All Deliberate Speed: Brown's Past And Brown's Future, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Apr 2005

All Deliberate Speed: Brown's Past And Brown's Future, Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

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Constitutional Law--The Eleventh Amendment--Injustice For All, Devon L. Gosnell Jun 1975

Constitutional Law--The Eleventh Amendment--Injustice For All, Devon L. Gosnell

West Virginia Law Review

The concept of sovereign immunity has long been a vibrant force in American law, overshadowing the inequities it created by the theory that government was responsible only for those wrongs it chose to recognize from a moral consciousness inherent within the state. When the thirteen colonies banded together to form the union known as the United States of America, state government played a relatively minor role in the lives of the people. Of the few disputes that did arise between states and citizens, mainly payment of bond obligations incurred during the Revolutionary War, most were settled out of court. As …