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Title: 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.
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