Incapacity of disabled to get protection?

[Eric M. Freedman]

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>>> jrogers at POP.UKY.EDU 03/05/01 12:37PM >>>
Michael McConnell asks:

>Can someone tell me: What is the legal/historical/doctrinal rationale for
>allowing the United States to sue states notwithstanding their sovereign
>immunity? (I am not asking for a functional justification, which is
>obvious.)
 -I addition to the legal point made by John Rogers, there is also the historical one that under the Articles of Confederation the states agreed to submit land disputes between them to the adjudication of the federal government. -E.