Clause 3. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment
of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption
of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person
attainted.
Article IV.--General Provisions.
=Section I.=--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 II.=--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 by 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.
N. B.--Clause 3 is obsolete.
=Section III.=--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 IV.=--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.--Power of Amendment.
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