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With the Continental Congresses and the previous Articles of Confederation, it was becoming increasingly clear that a confederal "united States" that was more an alliance of sovereign States working together to address some common interests and issues, and not a full political union, was not sufficiently desirable. Thus was born the true federation, indeed the federal republic of the United States,under the United States Constitution, much of the contemplation of which are found in The Federalist.

U.S. Const., Art. VI, Cl. 2:

"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."

The legal and constitutional effects of this Supremacy Clause is most commonly expressed in U.S. Constitutional law in the doctrines of federal preemption.

Article IV, and the subsequent Amendment IX and Amendment X, ensured that in the United States, federal supremacy is a limited supremacy.

U.S. Const., Art. IV:

"Section 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

Section 2. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime. No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.

Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress. The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

U.S. Const., Amend. IX:

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

U.S. Const., Amend. X:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

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Without the US Constitution, nothing would unify the States. Article 6 of the US Constitution declares the Constitution the supreme law of the land, meaning over all States.

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