The abrogation doctrine is a doctrine in United States constitutional law which permits the U.S. Congress to allow lawsuits seeking monetary damages against individual U.S. states, so long as this is usually done pursuant to a constitutional limitation on the power of the states. Where the immunity of the states is waived, it is most frequently pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to enforce its guarantees on the states and effectively overrides states' Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity.
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