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Compact Clause |
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A provision contained in Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, of the U.S. Constitution, which states, "No State shall, without the consent of Congress … enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State." Intended to curtail the increase of political power in the individual states that might interfere with the supremacy of the federal government or impose an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce in violation of the Commerce Clause. |
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In 1997 the attorneys general who put together the agreement asked Congress to endorse a similar deal, implicitly conceding that the Compact Clause required such approval. |
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