The following excerpt is from In re Lazar, 200 BR 358 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1996):
Nearly a century after the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to expand federal power at the expense of state autonomy. Seminole, at ___, 116 S.Ct. at 1125. This amendment fundamentally altered the balance of state and federal power struck by the Constitution, including that embodied in the Eleventh Amendment. Id., citing Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer, 427 U.S. 445, 452-56, 96 S.Ct. 2666, 2669-71, 49 L.Ed.2d 614 (1976).
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