(Repealed) Agreement With States in Part B
[This Article, which originally addressed special financial agreements with the former 'Part B States' (states formed from erstwhile princely states under the Constitution's original classification), became irrelevant once that classification was abolished by the 7th Amendment, 1956, and was repealed at that time.
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This is another example of the several Articles addressing the original Part A/B/C/D state classification that became redundant once that system was replaced — a recurring pattern across multiple Parts of the Constitution's original text.
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Why does the original Constitution have so many Part B State-specific provisions that were later repealed?
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