Talk:Sovereign immunity in the United States

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How can a democratic republic with no sovereign, that derives its rule supposedly from a mandate by the people, claim sovereign immunity, without a sovereign? It can't. Not to mention, the whole idea of a sovereign, or someone who because he is ruler, by the fact that he is ruler (and hasn't been deposed by some unseen hand of god), therefore must have the blessing of a deity and rules by divine right, is bogus argument entirely to begin with...?

I'd also point out that the United States was founded upon rebelling against a sovereign, and on rejecting the idea of sovereignty, kings, and titles of nobility entirely. Indeed, they were very clear on this point.

The short answer is, any claim of United States government sovereign immunity, and any sovereign immunity defense (by the United States government or any country, nation, or state) should be attacked vigorously without relent, by any lawyer worth his salt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.11.248 (talk) 20:39, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

The Constitution was authorized by the people who are sovereign in the USA!

Thus it is the people who individually and collectively are the only true sovereigns. As those born of citizens of the USA in the USA are citizens, they are also born as sovereign. Thus to suggest that it is the United States or each state that is sovereign really has no basis in law as the people never gave up their sovereignty.

The USA has always had a terrible fraudulent capacity to pull the wool over the eyes of a public that at one time had trust in their govt. We are learning through practical experiences that the govt has never been worthy of trust by any citizen.

Judges illegally claim "judicial immunity" when it was never granted them, nor was any branch of govt given authority to grant immunity to anyone. We claim we follow the rule of law and yet the people never granted immunity to anyone, as stated, in their Constitution, which is the Supreme Law and cant be altered by govt without the express consent of the people.

The govt is forcing the people to rewrite the Constitution or amend it to inform the govt that it is not sovereign, inform judges they have no immunity from the laws and Constitution, and states which are in the USA were never given sovereignty by the people and never had sovereignty under law.

The govt has abused the peoples sovereignty and authority and have been a cause of the financial and political failure of this nation! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.96.100 (talk) 18:13, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Sovereign and Judicial Immunity and the mumbo jumbo coming from legal experts.

We are taught in history classes and govt. classes that the US is a Constitutional Republic created by the people of the nation. The people gave the govt. a Constitution that says what it can do and what it cant do. The people also gave the each state a Constitution doing the same thing. Those things the people didn't allow or give to govt. was retained by themselves.

This because under our political set up, it is the people who are sovereign not the govt or those in it. But govt. could not and never was trusted. And there is little left to trust in the American govt for it has continually encroached on the peoples sovereignty and taken their individual freedoms from them. How is it that the govt. claims it is immune from suit for failing to comply with the peoples Constitution? Govt. claim they took it from British Law! Yet the sovereign people never granted govt. the authority to do that. The same is true from Judges. The people never gave judges immunity from the damages they caused by violating the Constitution! So govt just illegally or unconstitutionally gave it to themselves based on the illegal sovereign immunity they illegally took from British law without the consent of the people.

The truth is the govt is accountable to no one and is in fact an illegal oligarchy. Removing someone from office doesn't give restitution to the people his acts created. And yet we claim all are equal in America! Oh, really! Those who have studied history will realize that our founders and the people of this country didn't trust courts and always believed judges and courts were the weakest and most corrupt of the three branches. Congress was given a very liberal means to remove corrupt judges for any high crime or misdemeanor, with Congress also deciding what was a high crime and what was a misdemeanor when it came to the acts of a judge. There is no review of an impeachment,so Congress can literally remove any judge for any reason - but they have failed to remove corrupt judges and have little or no oversight of the courts. Yet that responsibility and duty was given them to do.

As there is no basis for sovereign immunity of govt in this country, consequentially there is no basis for judicial immunity. And it is an immunity never authorized by the sovereign people and those people never gave the authority to create such an immunity to any branch of govt and surely not to judges themselves.

Courts claim to have the authority to interpret laws and the Constitution. But the people have always as soveign have always had the authority to set aside any decision of any court. That is among the inherent rights of the people who created the govt and the courts in the first place.

Keep in mind that it is the people who gave the Constitution to govt that can tell govt what it means, not the other way around. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:9:7000:9BFB:8C85:5579:F89F:54D6 (talk) 14:47, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

There is very little logic in that rambling, emotional rant. And, this talk page is not the proper place for this. Famspear (talk) 15:11, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Actually, several of the posts on this page are similar to this one. Folks, this is not a weblog for discussing sovereign immunity. It's a talk page for discussing ways to improve the article on "Sovereign immunity in the United States." Famspear (talk) 15:17, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Administrative Procedure Act missing from article

As I write this, the article fails to mention the sovereign immunity waived by federal statute, 5 U.S. Code § 702, under the Administrative Procedure Act (United States), the latter a Wikipedia article that also fails to mention it. This particular section of the APA waives sovereign immunity by the United States for lawsuits not involving money and for which no other federal statute applies. See also this article The APA waives federal sovereign immunity over declaratory judgment actions as just one supporting reference. I will yield to a regular editor here to consider including this new material. Please mark this topic "Done" afterward. Thanks. 5Q5 (talk) 14:41, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

using 5th Amendment to escape Sovereign immunity

Want to add to this article (Sovereign immunity in USA), but thought should start things on Talk page. So the Takings Clause of Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution could be used to escape/avoid Sovereign immunity in the United States (fed court said YES, appeal court said no, & Supreme Court has been petitioned).

The case of Vicki Baker vs city of McKinney, Texas (abbreviated timeline): law enforcement break & poison Vicki's house (& injured dog into being deaf and blind), city refuses to repay, Vicky (with Institute for Justice) wins damages in federal court (2022 piece at Forbes), but the city appealed and a panel of the 5th Circuit reversed the 1st court's decision, so it was reported on 2024 June27 (The Dallas Morning News) that Baker and the Institute of Justice were going to file a petition (on June28) with US Supreme Court, and on June 28 LawAndCrime.com reported that Baker & the Institute had filed that petition (with link to that Supreme Court petition) EarthFurst (talk) 22:59, 21 September 2024 (UTC)