[thefrankbaum]

Exactly.

[SAJ]

Fiddlesticks. Where is it etched in granite that a 'compact' must be written down?

The very fact that these states are and have been for some time discussing this among themselves makes it a compact.

You and I, or any two other parties, can very easily make a compact, at law, by simply agreeing verbally that we both shall do such-and-so at some future time under some set of conditions.