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ARTICLE III.

States, shall be vested in one nesupreme Court, and
In such inf rior Courts as the Congress msJ from
time to time ,ordain and establish. The Judges, |
both "f the supreme and inferior Courts shall hold
their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at1
stated Times, receive for their Services. 9 Com
pensatiop, which shall not be diminished during
their Con tinuance in Office.
$50. The judicial Power shall txtend to, al
Cases in Law and Equity, arising under this Con
stitustor, the Laws the United States, and Trsa
ties made, or which shall be made. under their
Authority;-to all Cases affecting Ambassadors,
other public Ministers, and ContuIs to all Cases
OF ssnirsly and martin, Jurisd o.ioa ito
Controversies to which the United Shall be Party,
to Controversies between two or more States be :
tween State and Citizens of another State be
tween Citizens of dif.rens States,- tween Uiti-
izens of the ssme State claiming Lands under
Grants of different States, and between State, OF
the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens
or Subjects.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public
Ministers ard Consuls, end those in which S ate
cha be Prrty, the supreme Court shall have orig
inal Jurisdiction. In all the other Gases before
mentioned, the supreme Court shalt have appellate
Jurisdiction, both ss to Law and Fact, with such
Exceptions, and under such RegulAto ss the
Congress shall make.
The Trial Of all Crimes, except in Gases of i'm
peachment, shall be by Jury; aud such Trial shall
be held in the State where the said Crimes shall,
have been committed; bnt when not committed
within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place
or Places as the Congress may by Law have direc-
ted. -
SIC. 8. Treason against the United States,
shall consist only in lsvying War sgainst them, or
in sdhesring to their Enemies, giving them Aid
and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of
Treason unless on the Testimony of two W tnesHs
to the same overt Act, or on Confession iu open
Court.
The Congress shall have Tower to declare the
Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Trea-
son shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture
except during the Life of the Person attaiated.
ARTICLE. Nv.
SKo. l. Full Faith and Credit shall be given 10
! each State to the public Acts, Records, and judi.
oial Proceedings of every other State. Aud the
Congress nay by general Laws prescribe the Man
per in which such Acts, Records aud Proceedings
hall be proved, and the Eject thereof.
$50. =. The Citizens of each State sh all be en-.
titled to all Privileges and Imuunities of Citizens
in the several States.
A Person ebargedin in any State with Treason,
Feiiny, or other Crime, who shall Zee from Jus
tice. aud be found in smother State, shsIl on De-
mafsd " tho okssGtiss Of the State from
which he fed, be delivered up, to be removed to
the State haTinR Jurisdctieu OF the Crime.
No Person beld to Service or Lsbour in one
State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Reg.
N he frnn nh 2,r ice
or Lsbour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of
the Party to whom such Service or Labour may
be due. ...-.s..t.
SEC. ). New States may be admitted by the
Congre" into tbis 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 more States; or Parts of States
without tho Consent of the Legislatures of the
States concerned as we'll as Of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of
and make all needfu Rules and Regulations res
pecting the Territory or other Property belong
TO the United Statesj and nothing ip this Consti-
tuition shall be construed as to Prejudice any
Claims of the United States, or of any particular
! State. ..
SEo. 1. The United States shall guarantee to
every State 10 this Unisn a Republican Form of
Government, and sball protect each of them
against Invasion, and on Application of the Leg
islature, or of the Executive when the Legsls-
ture cannot be conFensdl against domestic Vic.
lenoe.
ARTICLE. v.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both
Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose
Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Ap
phcaton of the Legislatures of two thirds Of the
several States, sbali call Convention for propo-
sing Amendments, which, in either Case, sbslI b-
valid to all lntents and Purposes, as Part of this
Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of
three fourth of the several States, or by Conten.
tiops in three fourhs thereoas the one or the 9TH
or Mode of Rstifcstion may be proposed by the
Congress; Provided that Amendment which
may be made prior to the Year one thousand eight
hundred and eight shall in any Manner eject the
first AN fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the
first Article; and that no State, without its Con-
sent. shall be deprived OF its equal Suffrage in the
Senate. - .. .. .........
ARTICLE VI
All Debts contracted and engagements entered
Into, before tho Adoption of this Constitution,
shall be SIS valid against the United States under
this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Const tuition, and the Laws of the United
States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof;
aud sl Treaties made, or which shall b.
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 tbs Contrary NJ otwithstan-
ding.
The Senators and Representatives before men
TONED, and the Members of the several State Leg
isatures, and all executive and judicial Officers
both of the United States and of the several
States, shall be bound by Gath 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.
ARTICLE. VII.
The Ratification OF the Con ventions of nine
States, shall be sufficient for the Es absbmeut of
this Constitution between the States so ratfyipg
the Same. r.E.......-.. ..a...1
DosE in Convention by the Unanimous Consent
of the Sates present the Seventeeth Day of
September In the Year of our Lor d one thou