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 ===== The Lamp of Experience: Constitutional Amendments Work =====
 **Robert Natelson, Independence Institute’s Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence and Head of the Institute’s Article V Information Center**
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 The founding generation employed it for this purpose just seven years after the Constitution came into effect. In //Chisholm v. Georgia//, the Supreme Court misinterpreted the wording of Article III defining the jurisdiction of the federal courts. The Eleventh Amendment reversed that decision.
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 In 1857, the Court issued //Dred Scott v. Sandford//, in which it erroneously interpreted the Constitution to deny citizenship to African Americans. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment reversed that case.