Question

Chisholm v Georgia (1793) was noteworthy for being the first Supreme Court case of importance and involved a citizen of South Carolina suing the state of Georgia.
What was the important result of this case?

• A. The passage of the Eleventh Amendment.
• B. Chief Justice John Jay's resignation from the Supreme Court over his inability to sway the other justices to his point of view.
• C. The ruling that no African-American free or slave was a citizen of the US.
• D. The Bank of the United States was accepted as constitutional.
• E. The removal of the Cherokee Tribes from the Southwest.

Answer 1

The correct option is A The passage of the Eleventh Amendment.

Chisholm v Georgia (1793) was noteworthy for being the first Supreme Court case of importance and involved a citizen of South Carolina suing the state of Georgia. The result of this case was the passage of the Eleventh Amendment.