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We the People
of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
States of America.
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 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.
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 Parts 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.
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