Originally posted by AC*SE:
No, U.S. States are not sovereign. They have exclusive jurisdiction within their areas of competence, but they may not legislate extraterritorially.
Further, U.S. States have no jurisdiction of aviation, which is a federal jurisdiction.
Contrast this with the E.U. where there are fifteen jurisdictions which are sovereign, and which do have jurisdiction over aviation.
I think the sovereignty matter is still up for debate despite thw Federalists having gotten their way in the 19th century.
So the U.S. states do not have sovereignty over the transportation issues (as this has been delgated to the federal authority) but imagine if the E.U. member states had to negotiate with each U.S. state!
[This message has been edited by terenz (edited 09-05-2000).]