The U.S. Constitution ... With the 11th Amendment, we address the access citizens have when suing a state in federal court. Amendment XI states: “ "The Judicial power of the United States ...

The Judicial power of the United States shall not be ... immunity derives not from the Eleventh Amendment but from the structure of the original Constitution itself.” More recently, the Court ...

the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution was almost unanimously proposed, and was in due course adopted by the legislatures of the States.” That amendment provided that “[t]he Judicial power ...