WSP03626

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/30/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #7
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Jlihen Isha;llspeak of a State, I Iwish to be understood as
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not speaking merely of any individual !within that State, but of

the State ;as 'a.:sovereignty,

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,~ncluding 'collectively all the indiv-
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iduals and alLthe property of its oi ~izens as one would speak

of a nation. Our :Federal Union was f9unded and has since con-
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tinued, upon, thafund8lll8ntal principl~ that every attribute of
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absolute sovereignty ,not by express :)-anguage or necessary impli-

cation, surrendered to t)le Federal Goternment by the Constitution,

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. remains in theS:tate., In other words ~ the States are each still
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independent and ,sovereign in all resPfcts, except for those powers
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SUrrendered to the central Goyernmentl-- the United States of

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'11:11 those. lltatssof our Fede;t:al pnion, - Arizona, New Mexico
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and even Maine, _ which have come into the Union after the adop-
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~ionof the Conatitution by the, original thirteen, now stand and
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a:hlaYs have stood upon an exact equali ty ~Ii th the original thirteen.

No power or attribute of. sovereignty Iretained by the original

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thirteen is to be denied: to any oft~e ne~ler states, whether that

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state be Maine, VeI'lllont,Kentucky, o~ any of the Far Western states.

: 'When T speak ofa. .state, I spea1 of a state' in th~ definition
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of one of the original thirteen Statss. As said in the case of
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Coylevs. Smith, 121 U.S. 559, 579, ~he definition of a State of

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.tM Union is a definition of .any. one of the original thirteen.

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