PART III - THE SPLIT AND THE END OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MOVEMENT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
Summary
Within three years of ratification, the movement that had achieved the Constitution divided into two irreconcilable factions. With the accomplishment of its primary goals, the movement lost its drive. By the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment in 1796, the Congress and the states decided that the just war debts of a state were not enforceable. That adoption is a clear line to mark the end of the constitutional movement.
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- Righteous Anger at the Wicked StatesThe Meaning of the Founders' Constitution, pp. 247 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005