| Courts could interpret such consent as repealing, relative to the interstate compact, conflicting federal statutes. |
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| An unsettled matter is the extent of the federal power to terminate an interstate compact. |
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| In most instances, an interstate compact develops from a series of repeated interactions among key actors in participating states. |
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| An interstate compact establishes what is essentially a uniform law in the party states on a given subject, but differs in origin from uniform laws which do not require congressional consent. |
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| An interstate compact is an agreement between two or more states that allows this practice model. |
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| The enforceability of an interstate compact governing how states cast their Electoral College votes also remains an open question. |
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| Professor Evans is right that an interstate compact raises thorny legal issues. |
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| It would do this via an interstate compact adopted by state legislatures one by one. |
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| Readers React Mr. Brams suggests an interstate compact to give all of a state's electoral votes to the winner of the national vote. |
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| Therefore, all 270-plus of the electoral votes of the states that had joined the N. P. V.'s interstate compact would be cast for Wynner. |
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| An interstate compact is a federally approved binding agreement among the states. |
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| It would take 38 states to ratify a constitutional amendment, but as few as the 11 most populous states could bring the interstate compact into effect. |
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| A second means by which states may be bound is an interstate compact. |
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| Some advocates of Electoral College reform are suggesting that the country work around the amendment process through an interstate compact that would assure that the winner of the national popular vote becomes president. |
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