Section 1.
Full faith and credit shall be given
in each state to the public acts,
records, and judicial proceedings of
every other state. And the Congress
may by general laws prescribe the
manner in which such acts, records,
and proceedings shall be proved, and
the effect thereof.
Section
2.
The citizens of each state shall be
entitled to all privileges and
immunities of citizens in the
several states.
A
person charged in any state with
treason, felony, or other crime, who
shall flee from justice, and be
found in another state, shall on
demand of the executive authority of
the state from which he fled, be
delivered up, to be removed to the
state having jurisdiction of the
crime.
No person held to
service or labor in one state, under
the laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in consequence of
any law or regulation therein, be
discharged from such service or
labor, but shall be delivered up on
claim of the party to whom such
service or labor may be due.
Section
3.
New states may be admitted by the
Congress into this union; but no new
states shall be formed or erected
within the jurisdiction of any other
state; nor any state be formed by
the junction of two or more states,
or parts of states, without the
consent of the legislatures of the
states concerned as well as of the
Congress.
The
Congress shall have power to dispose
of and make all needful rules and
regulations respecting the territory
or other property belonging to the
United States; and nothing in this
Constitution shall be so construed
as to prejudice any claims of the
United States, or of any particular
state.
Section
4.
The United States shall guarantee to
every state in this union a
republican form of government, and
shall protect each of them against
invasion; and on application of the
legislature, or of the executive
(when the legislature cannot be
convened) against domestic violence.
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