Relations among the States

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Relations among the States

• Unit 5 Part 2

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Did you know?

• The last two states to join the Union were
  admitted in the same year 1959. Hawaii and
  Alaska were the two states admitted. These two
  states also have something else in common that
  distinguishes them from all other states! They
  do not have a common border with any other state.

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Interstate Relations

• Article IV of the constitution requires the
  states to do the following
• Give full faith and credit to laws, records,
  and court decisions of other states.
• Give one anothers citizens all the privileges
  and immunities of their own citizens
• Criminals fleeing to other states may be returned
  to their home state by extradition the legal
  process through which one state government
  surrenders an accused criminal to another state
  government.

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Full Faith and Credit

• The constitution states that full faith and
  credit shall be given in each state to the
  public acts, records and judicial proceedings of
  every other state translation each state must
  recognize the laws and legal proceedings in other
  states.
• This clause applies to civil laws.
• Civil Laws are laws relating to disputes between
  individuals, groups, or with a state.
• One state cannot enforce another states
  criminal laws.

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Types of Coverage of Full Faith and Credit

• Public Acts public acts refers to civil laws
  passed by sate legislatures.
• Records records cover various types of
  documents such as mortgages, deeds, leases,
  wills, marriage licenses, car registrations, and
  birth certificates.
• Judicial Proceedings the phrase judicial
  proceedings refers to various court actions such
  as judgments to pay a debt.

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Privileges and Immunities

• Each state must treat citizens of other states
  equally with its own citizens and not
  discriminate against them, though nonresidents
  may not enjoy all the rights of state citizens.

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Interstate Compacts

• States must settle their differences with one
  another without the use of force using interstate
  compacts.
• These compacts are written agreements between two
  or more states the national government or
  foreign countries may also be part of an
  interstate compact.

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Interstate Compacts

• Congress must approve interstate compacts for
  them to be legal.
• Today nearly 200 compacts are enforced dealing
  with issues such as pollution, pest control, toll
  bridges, disposal of hazardous waste, and
  transportation.

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Lawsuits between States

• When states cant solve their problems using
  interstate compacts they may use other methods
  such as interstate lawsuits.
• Since 1789, 220 disputes between states have
  wound up in courts.
• Lawsuits brought by a state against another state
  (suits involving 2 or more states) are tried in
  the Supreme Court.