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Article IV - The States
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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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