now reads as follows: “The term "person” includes one or more individuals, governments, governmental agencies, political subdivisions, labor unions, partnerships, associations, coiporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in cases under Title 11, or receivers.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(a) (emphasis supplied). 24 .The Eleventh Amendment provides that: "The Judicial Power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.” U.S. Const, amend. XI (1795). See also, e.g., Hans v. Louisiana, 134 U.S. 1, 13-15, 10 S.Ct. 504, 33 L.Ed. 842 (1890) (<HOLDING>); The Federalist, No, 81, at 487 (Alexander
holding that the eleventh amendment not only repudiated the supreme courts decision in chisholm v georgia 2 us 2 dall 419 1 led 440 1793 but restored the original understanding of the persons who drafted the constitutionin hamiltons phrase the plan of the conventionthat a state could not be sued without its consent holding that the supreme court of pennsylvania is a state entity for purposes of the eleventh amendment holding that the possibility of a mistaken understanding of the phrase preponderance of the evidence on the part of the jury is too remote to constitute plain error when counsel gave the jury an accurate explanation of the legal meaning of the phrase in his closing argument and that meaning is consistent with the common understanding of the words in the phrase recognizing that when a state employee is sued in his official capacity the state is the real party in interest and as a result the eleventh amendment is implicated holding that a county is not an arm of the state for purposes of the eleventh amendment