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Revision as of 20:09, 7 February 2001 by JimboWales (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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.