Narrowing the nations power the supreme court sides with the states amazonde noonan john t jr fremdsprachige bucher. Narrowing the nations poweris the tale of how a cohesive majority of the supreme court has in the last six years cut back the power of congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states the immunity from suit of the sovereign blackstone taught is necessary to preserve the peoples idea that the sovereign is a superior being promoting the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity to constitutional status the current supreme court has used it to shield the states from damages for . In his book narrowing the nations power the supreme court sides with the states judge john t noonan jr2 argues against the supreme courts recent trend of siding with states rather than individuals judge noonan outlines the courts three new tools used to restrict the lawmaking power of congress as it pertains to the states first the court expanded the definition of sovereign immunity. Narrowing the nations power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the supreme court has in the last six years cut back the power of congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states the immunity from suit of the sovereign blackstone taught is necessary to preserve the peoples idea that the sovereign is a superior being promoting the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity to constitutional status the current supreme court has used it to shield the states from damages . Narrowing the nations power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the supreme court has in the last six years cut back the power of congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states the immunity from suit of the sovereign blackstone taught is necessary to preserve the peoples idea that the sovereign is a superior being promoting the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity to constitutional status the current supreme court has used it to shield the states from