Sovereign immunity
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Sovereign immunity constitutional
The rule that you generally can't sue the government without its consent.
Technical: The doctrine shielding the sovereign (federal and, via the Eleventh Amendment and structural principles, the states) from suit absent consent or valid abrogation.
Founding-era note: Rooted in the English maxim that 'the King can do no wrong'; carried into American law and reinforced by the Eleventh Amendment (1795) after Chisholm v. Georgia (1793).
Sources: Cornell LII — Sovereign immunity
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