State Statutes

State Statutes are National (not Federal)

“INTERNATIONAL LAW RULE: Adopted for areas under Federal legislative jurisdiction…Federalizes State civil law, including common law. –The rule serves to federalize not only the statutory but the common law of the a State…. STATE AND FEDERAL VENUE DISCUSSED: The civil laws effective in an area of exclusive Federal jurisdiction are Federal law, notwithstanding their derivation from States laws and a cause arising under such laws may be brought in or removed to a Federal district court under… (now sections 1331 and 1441 of title 28, United States Code), giving jurisdiction to such courts of civil actions arising under the **laws** of the United States.

“Jurisdiction over Federal Areas within the States. Report of the interdepartmental Committee for the Study of Jurisdiction over Federal Areas Within the States” Part II A Text of the Law of Legislative Jurisdiction Submitted to the Attorney General and Transmitted to the President June 1957, page 158-165

Note terminology: when we see the state of Arkansas or the state of Ohio, that’s a territory. Arkansas state or Ohio state, is the de jure republic that joined the union.