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 pursuant to article 5, section 20. To the extent that other cases conflict with this holding, we overrule those opinions.

Further, this court has held that suits subjecting the State to financial liability are barred by sovereign immunity and that plaintiffs like Andrews with these causes of actions have a "proper avenue for redress against State action, which is to file a claim with the Arkansas Claims Commission." ''Univ. of Ark. for Med. Scis. v. Adams'', 354 Ark. 21, 25, 117 S.W.3d 588, 591 (2003); see also Ark. Const. Art. 2, § 13 (stating that "[e]very person is entitled to a certain remedy in the laws for all injuries or wrongs he may receive in his person, property or character").

III. Additional Arguments
Andrews raises additional arguments that (1) article 2 trumps article 5, and thus the State must be answerable in court to claims at law for violations of the AMWA, and (2) any application of sovereign immunity has been waived.

We do not address these arguments. Here, the circuit court did not specifically rule on these issues in either its letter order or its final order. This court has been clear that it will not presume a ruling from the circuit court's silence, and we have held that we will not review a matter on which the circuit court has not ruled. Alpha Mktg., 2012 Ark. 23, 386 S.W.3d 400.

IV. Conclusion
For the foregoing reasons, we hold that the circuit court erred as a matter of law in denying the Board's motion to dismiss because it lacked jurisdiction over Andrews's AMWA claim pursuant to the doctrine of sovereign immunity. Accordingly, we reverse and dismiss.