Who’s Left Standing for State Sovereignty?:

Private Party Standing to Raise Tenth Amendment Claims

By: Katherine Connolly

Section 1:

The most critical topic raised in Who’s Left Standing for State Sovereignty?: Private Party Standing to Raise Tenth Amendment Claims by Katherine Connolly is the Supreme Court and State courts oscillating view of the Tenth Amendment, the contradictory views between circuit court of appeals on the Amendment, and an analysis of private party Tenth Amendment standing. “In the decades since its adoption, American courts have vigorously debated the substantive meaning of this Amendment.” (Connolly 1540) Many of the circuit court of appeals have had a difficult time coming to an agreement on the underlying meaning of the Amendment. “Six circuit courts of appeals now hold the increasingly popular majority position that only states and not private parties may enforce the Tenth Amendment. Two circuit courts of appeals hold the once-majority position that private party standing to assert claims under the Tenth Amendment is permissible.” (Connolly 1541)

The article was taken from the Boston College Law Review. Katherine Connolly, the author of the note, has her opinions on the topic of the Tenth Amendment and knows the history of it because she is a third year student at Boston College Law School and the senior editor of the Law Review.

Section 2:

The author did not make any vague, ambiguous or unsupported statements in the note. Connolly supported all of her facts with evidence and laws. In the introduction she laid out exactly what was going to be discussed in the three parts of the article so that there would be no confusion and then went on to thoroughly explain each part with support from other journals she found. Each state has the ability to interpret the Tenth Amendment and private party standing the