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attainder of treason shall work corruption
of blood, or forfeiture, except during the
life of the apersol attainted.
ARTICLE w.
Section Ii. 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 man.
ner in which such acts, records, and pre-
ceedings shall be proved, and the effect
thereof
Sec. Ill. The citizens of each State
shall be entitled to all qrivi1eges and ins-
nnunities of citizens IN the several States.
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.
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.
Sec. ILL.,. New States may be ad-
mitted by the Congress into this Union !;
but no new State shall be formed or erect
ed 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 legisla-
lures of the States concerned, as we'll as
of the Congress.
g. The Congress shall have power to
dispose of and make all needful rules and
regulations respecting the territory or 9TH
er 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
Sec. IT-1. The United States shall
guarantee to eocry State IN this Union, q
republican form Of government, and shall
protect each of them against invasion !;
and, on application Of the legislature, or
of the executive, (aohem the legislature can
not be convened, against domestic violence
ARTICLE V.
l. The Congress, whenever two-thirds
of both houses shall deem it necessary,
shall propose amendments to this constitu-
tion, or on the application of the legisla-
ture of two-thirds of the several States,
shall Gala convention for proposing amend
ments, which, in either case, shall be valid
to all intents and purposes, as part of this
constitution, when ratified by the legisla-
lures of three-fourths of the several States,
or by conventions in three-fourths thereof,
as the one the other mode of ratifca-
'tioh may be proposed by the ;Uongress !;
provided that no amendment Which may
be made prior to the year one thousand
eight hundred and eight, shall in any man.
ner 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 Sen
ate.
ARTICLE vi.
l. All debts contracted, and engage
ments entered into, before the adoption of
this constitution, shall be as valid against
the United States under this constitution,
as under the confederation.
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 authori-
ty of the United States, shall be the su-
preme 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.
8. The senators and representatives be-
fore mentioned, and the members of the
several State Legislatures, and all execu-
tive and judicial officers, both of the Uni
ted 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 qualification to
any Office or public trust under the United
States.
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