10 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

ARTICLE IV.

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 Jurisdic-
tion 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 State shall be formed or erected within the
Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junc-
tion 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.

ARTICLE V.

The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it
necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the
Application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States,
shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either
Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Consti-
tution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several
States, or by Conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the
other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided
that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thou-
sand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and