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Show suit. Even compacts less grudgingly hedged with srving clauses than those already approved in the field of water rights will bring their train of liti« gation. Doubtless such situations are not typical of a mass of essentially administrative agreements that will be made in the future. Of the thousands of written agreements now existing between national and state authorities a negligible number have reached the courts even obliquely* Such a condition is wholesome* Nevertheless * as increasing weight is put upon compacts* in- terstate and national-state alike, the courts can strengthen and steady the fabric by establishing further the fact of their enforceability* Arthur W. Macmahon References Consult: Frankfurter, Felix and Landis, James M.* "The Compact Clause of the Constitution - A Study in Interstate Adjustments" in Yale Law Journal, vol. xxxiv (1924-25) 685-7585 "Public Agencies Employed in Interstate Co- operations The Port of New York Authority," unsigned note in Harvard Law Review, vol. xxxix (1925-26) 499~502; Olson, Reuel L., The Colorado River Compact (Los Angeles 1926); Pennsylvania, Giant Power Board, Report, Dec. 7» 1926 (Harrisburg 192") p. 19-22, 155-83; '^rren, Charles., The Supreme Court and Sovereign States (Princeton 192U) 69-97, 121~2ij.; Chamberlain, Joseph p., "Current Legislation" in American Bar Association Journal, vol. ix (1923) 207-295 Hoores, Merrill, "Compacts and Agreements between States under tlie Constitution" in Thirteenth Conference of Governors, proceedings (1921) 27-U3; "Interstate Compacts as a Means of Settling Disputes between States,*' unsigned note in Harvard Lav; Ileview, vol. xxxv (1921-22) 322-26; "The Fower of the States to Hake Compacts," unsigned note in Yale Law Journal., vol. xxxi (1921-22) 635-99; Carpenter, Delph E., "Application of the Reserve Treaty Powers of the States to Interstate Uater Controversies" in Colorado Bar Association, Reports vol. xxiv (1921) ij.5-101; Bruoe, Andrew A. , "The Compacts and Agreements of States with One Another and with For- eign Powers" in Minnesota Law Review, vol. ii (1918) 500-16; Devlin, Robert T» , The Treaty Power under the Constitution of the United States (San Fran- cisco 1Q08) 36-5O5 Fleiner, Fritz, Schweizerisches Bundesstaatsrecht (Tubingen 1923) p. 76-79* Prom Enclyclopaedia of the Social Sciences Vol. IV - Pages 109-113 The McMillen Company ds 1931 -J48- |