Editing Interstate compact (section)

==History==
Treaties between the states, ratified under the [[Articles of Confederation]] during the period after [[American independence]] in 1776 until the current U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1789, are [[grandfathered]] and treated as interstate compacts.  This includes agreements like the [[Treaty of Beaufort]], which set the [[Border|boundary]] between [[Georgia (US)|Georgia]] and [[South Carolina]] in 1787, and is still in effect.

Prior to 1922, most interstate compacts were either border agreements between states or advisory compacts, the latter of which are tasked with conducting joint studies to report back to the respective state legislatures. With the creation of the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]] in 1922, administrative compacts began to develop as a third, more-empowered type of interstate compact, in which persistent governance structures are tasked by member states with conducting designated services.

Today, Virginia is a member of the most interstate compacts at 40, while Hawaii is a member of the fewest at 15.<ref>{{cite web| title=Interstate Compacts: Background, History and Modern Use| url=http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/system/files/Compacts%20Background.pdf| website=csg.org| publisher=National Center for Interstate Compacts| location=Lexington, Kentucky| access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904070613/http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/system/files/Compacts%20Background.pdf |archive-date=September 4, 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref>