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Interstate Relations

Chapter Four; Section Three. Interstate Relations. Interstate Compacts. No state can enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation. With the consent of Congress, states can enter into interstate compacts, which are agreements among themselves.

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Interstate Relations

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  1. Chapter Four; Section Three Interstate Relations

  2. Interstate Compacts • No state can enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation. • With the consent of Congress, states can enter into interstate compacts, which are agreements among themselves. • Coordinating the development and conservation of resources such as water, oil, wildlife, and fish. • Prevention of forest fires • Combat stream and harbor pollution • Provide for tax collections

  3. Full Faith and Credit Clause • Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. • Public: Laws of the state • Records: Documents such as birth certificate, marriage licenses, deeds to property, car registration, etc. • Judicial Proceedings: Outcome of court actions, damage awards, proving of wills, divorce, etc.

  4. Full Faith and Credit Clause • Most often comes into play in court matters. • Exceptions: • It applies only to civil, not criminal, matters • One state cannot enforce another state’s criminal law. • Need not be given to certain divorces granted by one state to residents of another state. • Was the person who obtained the divorce in fact a resident of the state that granted it?

  5. Extradition • The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to that state. • Extradition is designed to prevent a person from escaping justice by fleeing to a state.

  6. Privileges and Immunities • Means that no state can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in another state. • States must recognize the right of any American to travel in or become a resident of that state. • It must allow any citizen to use its courts and make contracts, buy, sell, own, or rent property; marry, etc.

  7. Privileges and Immunities • States can: • Require that people live within the state for a certain time before being able to hold public office. • Require higher fees for hunting or fishing licenses. • Set higher tuition rates for out of state students.

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