Article 1, Section 10, Paragraph 1
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
State Treaties
A State gets relief from certain obligations that a country normally faces. To build cohesion, States were stripped of certain rights they had enjoyed.
Biblically, a nation’s leaders would assemble to consider a treaty that would influence the individual tribes.
An example of this is the treaty Israel made with the Gibeonites, Joshua 9. The leaders believed the Hivites and did not verify their claims.
Treaties should be based on proven facts. These facts should be listed and leave a cancellation clause should they be erroneous.
God warned Israel against making treaties, alliances or even forming confederations, because He was to be their salvation. Israel proved that Confederations were powerless by defeating the World’s most powerful ones when they entered the Land and again as they crossed the Jordan River. Two great Confederations had formed to defend themselves against Israel. The best in defenses had been constructed. God destroyed it all by simply using hornets!
Joshua 24:12, "And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow."
Forming confederations or alliances between states or countries only causes division and leads to power brokering and war. This divided Israel in the days of Rehoboam over taxation. The division led to civil war and enemies were able to then conquer Israel.
Letters of Marque and Reprisal are the papers that enable private citizens to arm themselves and seize goods of another nation as well as take prisoners. States could not declare war, only the Federal Government was to initiate and conduct such action.
This has left a huge hole in the immigration crisis. States should have a right to appoint an army to defend their borders from foreign intruders.
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