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Tate Letter (1952) — Restrictive Sovereign Immunity

Carve-Out Narrowing — restrictive sovereign immunity (1952)

US State Dept, 19 May 1952; announced the RESTRICTIVE theory of sovereign immunity — immunity for governmental acts (jure imperii) but NOT for commercial/proprietary acts (jure gestionis); codified 1976 in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).