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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.
Clause 1:
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several
States.
Clause 2:
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.
Clause
3:
No Person held to Service or Labour 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 Labour, but shall
be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such
Service or Labour may be due.
Section 3.
Clause 1:
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 Junction of two or more
States, or Part of States, without the Consent of
the Legislatures of the States concerned as well
as of the Congress.
Clause 2:
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.
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 Constitution, 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 thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Clause 1:
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into,
before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall
be as valid against the United States under this
Constitution, as under the Confederation.
Clause 2:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States
which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all
Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the
Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme
Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall
be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution
or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Clause 3:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned,
and the Members of the several State Legislatures,
and all executive and judicial Officers, both of
the United States and of the several States, shall
be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this
Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be
required as a Qualification to any Office or public
Trust under the United States.
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our
Names
Go. Washington--Presidt. and deputy from Virginia
Delaware
Geo: Read
Gunning Bedford Jun
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jaco: Broom
Maryland
James McHenry
Dan of St Thos. Jenifer
DanL Carroll.
Virginia
John Blair
James Madison Jr.
North Carolina
Wm Blount
RichD Dobbs Spaight
South Carolina
J. Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pickney
Pierce Butler
Georgia
William Few
Abr Baldwin
New Hampshire
John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
Connecticut
W. SamL Johnson
Roger Sherman
New York
Alexander Hamilton
New Jersey
Wil. Livingston
David Brearly
Wm. Paterson
Jona: Dayton
Pennsylvania
B. Franklin
Thomas Mifflin
RobT Morris
Geo. Clymer
Thos. FitzSimmons
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson
Gouv. Morris
Attest William Jackson Secretary
