The document summarizes various obligations and relationships between the US federal government and state governments. It discusses the Republican form of government and how the federal government ensured states recognized rights of freed slaves after the Civil War. It also covers conditions for new states being admitted to the Union, various types of federal grants to states, and requirements for states to recognize other states' acts, records, proceedings, and extradition of fugitives between states.

1. Chapter 4 Sections 2 and 3

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

29. conservation of resources

30. tax collections

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

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.

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.

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.