Twixt City and State
By the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution the judicial powers of the United States do not extend to any suit "commenced or prosecuted" by the citizens of one state against any other of the United States. The interpretation of this amendment was recently brought into question before the Supreme Court in a controversy between the state of Georgia and the city of Chattanooga.
The deep seat of the trouble is that 80 years ago Georgia, in trying to open up the northwestern part of her territory,...
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