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2. Nation's Obligations to the States
3. Invasion and Internal Disorder An invasion on one state is an invasion on them all.Sometimes states can't handle internal disorder (like riots) and a nation may come to help. 4. Respect for Territorial Integrity- Boundaries of the states are recognized by the National Government. 5. Enabling Act
6. The enabling act, is an act directing the people of the territory (that wants to be admitted) to frame a proposed State constitution. 7. Act of admission an act creating the new state. 8. Hawaii and Alaska adopted a proposed constitution without waiting for the enabling act.They both became states in 1959. 9. Conditions for Admission
10. Utah had to outlaw polygamy first! 11. Alaska was prohibited from claiming title to any lands legally held by any Native American. 12. Oklahoma wasn't suppose to change their capital from Guthrie for a certain amount of time. 13. Federal Grants-in-aid programs
14. Historically these could have been in the form of land for things such as schools or colleges, roads and canals, or flood work. 15. There are more than 500 now in areas such as education, mass transit, highway construction, health care, etc. 16. Grants-in-aid blur the division of powers line in the federal government.Gives Washington a voice in the local government. 17. Revenue Sharing
18. Congress gave an annual share of the huge federal tax revenue to the States and their cities, counties, and townships. 19. Opposed by the Reagan administration and went away. 20. Can you imagine if we still had this?It would be great but we would just go further in debt! 21. Federal Grants
22. Federal Grants
23. Federal Grants
24. State Aid to National Government?
25. Naturalization, process of by which aliens become US citizens is handled by the states. 26. Those who commit federal crimes are often picked up by State and local police. 27. Interstate Relations
28. Why would they do this?
29. conservation of resources 30. tax collections 31. motor vehicle safety Seven western States belong to the Colorado River Compact, which apportions the waters of the Colorado River Basin. 32. Full Faith and Credit
33. records documents as birth certificates, marriage licenses, deeds to property, car registrations 34. judicial proceedings outcome of court actions: damage awards, probating of wills, divorce decrees 35. Full Faith and Credit Clause
36. Exceptions:Applies to civil, not criminal, matters.Also, full faith and credit need not be given to certain divorces grated by one State to residents of another State. 37. Quickie Divorces
38. Extradition
39. Extradition the legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one State can be returned to the state.Designed to prevent a person from escaping justice by fleeing a State. 40. Privileges and Immunities Clause
41. No state can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States. 42. They can't give preferential employment to their residents or higher welfare benefits to their long-term residents as opposed to their newly arrived. 43. They can require residents to live in a state for a certain amount of time before they can vote.They can require residents to have a certain license, like an Ohio teaching license.They can require nonresidents to pay higher fees to hunt or fish.And higher tuition for college.