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Show OHIO RIVER SANITATION COMPACT 237 Sneaking of its authority to decide for itself whether the compact was in conflict with the State Constitution, the Court said: "Just as this Court has power to settle disputes between States where there is no compact, it must have final power to pass upon the meaning and validity of compacts. It requires no elaborate argu- ment to reject the suggestion that an agreement solemnly entered into between States by those who alone have political authority to speak for a State can be unilaterally nullified, or given final meaning by an organ of one of the contracting 'States. A State cannot be its own ultimate judge in a controversy with a sister State. * * * Of course every deference will be shown to what the highest court of a State deems to be the law and policy of its State, particularly when rec- ondite or unique features of local law are urged. Deference is one thing; submission to a State's own determination of whether it has undertaken an obligation, what that obligation is, and whether it con- flicts with a disability of the State to undertake it is quite another" (p. 28). Related compact.-See Tennessee Eiver Basin Water Pollution Control Compact, pp. 326ff, post. |