Interstate Relations in American Government

1. Unit 4Chapter 4, Section 2 Relations Among the States Mr. Young American Government

2. Interstate Relations • Article IV requires states to do the following: • Give “Full faith and credit to another state • Give another state’s citizens “privileges and immunities” • Extradite, return a fugitive to the state they escaped from

3. Full Faith and Credit • Given to each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings • Each state must recognize the laws and legal proceedings of every other state • Only applies to civil laws- laws relating to disputes between individuals, groups, or with the state

4. Full Faith and Credit

5. Privileges and Immunities • One state may not discriminate against a citizen of another state • States can make laws regarding voting, holding a public office, residency before establishing a professional business • Also, may have to pay for fishing or hunting, and out-of-state tuition

6. Privileges and Immunities

7. Extradition • Returning a criminal back to the state of the crime • The governor of the state is responsible for returning the criminal

8. Extradition

9. Interstate Compacts • A written agreement between two or more states • States must resolve their differences in a nonviolent way • Congress must approve of the compact, and once it is signed, it is enforceable by the Supreme Court

10. Interstate Compacts

11. Lawsuits between States • Suits among two or more states are heard in the US Supreme Court, the only court in which one state may sue another • They can be over many issues, such as water, sewage polluting water in another state, or boundary lines.

12. Lawsuits among state