<P> The Eleventh Amendment was the first Constitutional amendment adopted after the Bill of Rights . The amendment was adopted following the Supreme Court 's ruling in Chisholm v. Georgia , 2 U.S. 419 ( 1793 ) . In Chisholm , the Court ruled that federal courts had the authority to hear cases in law and equity brought by private citizens against states and that states did not enjoy sovereign immunity from suits made by citizens of other states in federal court . Thus , the amendment clarified Article III , Section 2 of the Constitution , which gives diversity jurisdiction to the judiciary to hear cases `` between a state and citizens of another state '' . </P>
what event provoked congress to propose the eleventh amendment and the states to ratify it
the Supreme Court 's ruling in Chisholm v. Georgia , 2 U.S. 419 ( 1793 )