The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-06-03

eral laws, prescribe the manner in which
such acts, records and proceedings shall
be proved and the efectthereof.
SEC. 2.-1. The citizens of each State
shall be entitled to all the privileges and
immunities 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 fed,
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, es-
Gaping into another, shall, in consequences
of any law or regulation therein, be dis
charged from such service or labor; but
shall be delivered up on claim Of the par
ty to whom such service or labor may be due
Sec. I'LL. New states may be ad-
mitted by Congress into this Union; but
no new state shall be formed or erected
within the jurisdiction Of any other state,
or any state be formed by the juncture of
two or more states or parts of states, with
out the consent of the Legislatures of the
states concerned, as we'll as of Congress.
2. Congress shall have power to dis
pose 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.
Sec. IV.--1. 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 convened0 against domestic
violence.
| ART. v.-OF AMENDMENTS.
/. 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 convention for proposing amend
ments, which, in either case, shall be valid
to all intents and purposes, as part of this
1
latures 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 Congress;
provided, that no amendment which may
be made prior to the year ono thousand
|'eight hundred and eight, shall in any
manner affect the first and fourth clauses
in the ninth section Of the first article
J and that no state, without its consent
shall be deprived Of its equal suffrage in
the Senate.
ART. vI.-uIscEtLANEoUs.
] 1. All debts contracted and engage
ments entered into, before the adoption
of this Constitution, shall be as valie
against the United States under this Con
stitution, as under the confederation.
a. This Constitution, and the laws o
the United States which shall be mad,
in pursuance thereof, and all treatie
, made, or which shall be made, under th
, authority Of the United States, shall b.
the supreme law of the land; and th,
, judges in every state shall be boun,
thereby, anything in the Constitutions o
laws Of any state to the contrary notwith
standing. s,t
3. The Senators and Representative
before mentioned, and the members of th,
s several State Legislatures, and all execu
. :. tive and judicial officers, both Of th
] United States and of the several state.
! shall be bound by oath or affirmation +
r support this Constitution; but no religion
test shakever be required as quali6oa
tion to any Office: or public trust, unde
!, the United States. gssseaH 81 s..aas
!. ART. vII.-oF THE RATIFICATION.
5 /. The ratification of the convention
}, of nine states shall be sufficient for th
: establishment Of this Constitution be
}, tween the states SO ratifying the same.
II Done in Convention, by the unanimou
! consent of the states present, the seven
e teenth day of September, in the yea
J. of our Lord one thousand seven hur
) dred and eighty seven, and Of the II
ri dependence of the United States I
q America the twelfth. In witness where
It of, we have hersunto subscribed on
names.
81 GEORGE WASHINGTON,
President and Deputy from Virginia.
>, NEW HAMPSHIRE. DELAWARE.
q John Langdon, George Read,
le Nicholas Gilman. Cunning Bedford, j
3 afs - John Dickinson, .
. MASSACHUSETTS. Richard Hassett,
'e Nathaniel German, Jacob Broom.
" Rufus King,
u CONNECTICUT. MAYLAND.
9. VIM. S. johnson, James M'Henry,
~ Roger Sherman, Danl of St. t. enif
y Daniel Carroll.
70 NEW YORK. VIRGINIA.. e
- Alex. Hamilton, John Blair,
u James Madison, jr.
"a NEW JERSEY. NORTH CAROLINA.
w William Lingston, William Blount,
David Brearly, Richard d. Spaigl
IL VIM. Patterson, Hugh Williamsen.
,g Jonathan Dayton. SOUTH CAROLINA
1T PENNSYLVANIA. -
IT. Benjamin Franklin, John Rutledge.
n, Thomas Nif6in, Charles C. Pinckns
es Robert Morris, Charles Pinckney,
In George Clymer, Pierce Butler.
Thos. Fitzsimmons, GEORGIA.