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Modern compacts are a reinvigoration of our federalist system in which states may only be able to preserve their sovereign authority over interstate problems to the extent that they share their sovereignty and work together cooperatively through interstate compacts. Today, states are facing issues that are not confined to geographical boundaries or jurisdictional lines. As we become more integrated socially, culturally and economically, the volume of these issues will only increase, making federal pre-emption in certain policy areas an ever more likely response. Interstate compacts may well prove to be an apt mechanism for developing state-based solutions to supra-state problems while preserving the states' authority and freedoms. |
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