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Compact

An agreement, treaty, or contract.

The term compact is most often applied to agreements among states or between nations on matters in which they have a common concern.

The Constitution contains the Compact Clause, which prohibits one state from entering into a compact with another state without the consent of Congress.

COMPACT, contracts. In its more general sense, it signifies an agreement. In its strict sense, it imports a contract between parties, which creates obligations and rights capable of being enforced, and contemplated as such between the parties, in their distinct and independent characters. Story, Const. B. 3, c. 3; Rutherf. Inst. B. 2, c. 6, Sec. 1. 2. The constitution of the United States declares that "no state shall, without the consent of congress, enter into agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power." See 11 Pet: 1; 8 Wheat. 1 Bald. R. 60; 11 Pet. 185.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Additional compact investments have supported building capacity for staff at the Ministry of Public Works and the National Road Fund, drafting Liberia`s five-year road maintenance plan, and collecting data of the conditions of all roads connecting county capitals, which will be used to annually update the road maintenance plan.

MCC prepares for closure

"According to the global compact on refugees, the UN expects the Member States to allow immigrants to travel freely and without control within a country and to decrease detentions.

Hungary to reject UN's new global compact on refugees

MCC is an innovative foreign assistance agency of the United States Government established in 2004 that has signed compacts with 29 countries around the world.

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"Why don't cities and towns get money from the compacts?" she said.

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Recognising the compatibility between Islamic values and the more general values which underpin the UN Global Compact, and indeed the Global Goals, we are shaping our strategy and initiatives in a way that will help us consistently achieve both.'

AL JISR FOUNDATION IS OMAN'S FIRST NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION TO SIGN UN GLOBAL COMPACT

"The Compact is an Afghan-led initiative to demonstrate the government's commitment to creating a peaceful, stable, and prosperous society and is an important factor upon which the U.S.

Afghan President signs decree for implementing strategic deal with US

Please see the attached resolution (to the right) that the MNA House of Delegates passed unanimously at our annual convention in October 2016 asking to postpone acting on the enhanced nurse licensure compact legislation.

Nursing compact

Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact ("Compact") was signed by the eight U.S.

The approval of Waukesha's diversion application under the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin water resources compact - bad precedent for the Great Lakes

In the 1960s and 1970s, States persuaded Congress and the business community that then-imminent federal legislation mandating uniformity in state taxation was unnecessary because a number of States had enacted the Compact. The Compact is a complex interstate agreement, the most central provision of which entitles taxpayers to divide their income among States for tax purposes using either the State's apportionment formula or the Compact's equally-weighted, three factor apportionment formula.

TEI files brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in California Multistate Tax Compact litigation