Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-10-03
CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES
Continued from last weekly
ARTICLE III.


ferior Courts, shall hold their Offices
during good Behaviour, and shall, at
stated Times, receive fer their Serv-
ices, a Compensation, which shall not
be diminished during their Continuance
in Office.
Section 2 The judicial Power shall
extend to all Cases. in Law and Equity,
arising under this Constitution, the
Laws of the United States, and Trea-
ties made, or which shall be made, I'M
der their Authority to all Cases af-
fecting Ambassadors, other public Min
listers and CcnSulS to all Cases OF
admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;
to Controversies to which the United
States shall be Party;-tO COntrO-
versieS between two or more States -
between State and Citizens of an
other State;-between Citizens of diff
ferent States between Citizens of
the same State claiming Lands under
Grants Of different States, and between
State, or the Citizens thereof and
foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors,
other public Ministers and Consuls,
and those in which a State shall be
Party, the supreme Court shall have
original Jurisdiction. In all the other
Cases before mentioned, the supreme
Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction,
both as to Law and Fact, with such Ex-
ceptions, and under such Regulations
as the Congress shall make.
The Trial of all Crimes, except In
Cases of Impeachment, shall be by
Jury; and such Trial shall be held in
the State where the said Crimes shall
have been committed; but when not
committed within any State, the Trial
shall be at such Place or Places as the
Congress may by Law have directed.
Section g. Treason against the Unit
ed States, shall consist only in levying
War against them, or in adhering to
their Enemies, giving them Aid and
Comfort. No Person shall be convicted
of Treason unless on the Testimony
of two Witnesses to the same overt
Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to
declare the Punishment of Treason, but
no Attainder of Treason shall work
Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture ex-
cept during the Life of the Person at
tainted.
ARTICLE ".
Section 1. Full Faith and Credit shall
be given in each State to the public
Acts, Records, and judicial Proceed
ings of every other State. And the
Congress may by general Laws pre-
scribe the Manner in which such Acts,
Records and Proceedings shall be
proved. and the Effect thereof.
Section 2. The Citizens of each State
shall be entitled to all Privileges and
Immunities Of Citizens in the several
States.
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.
No Person held to Service or Labour
in one State. under the Laws thereof,
escaping into another, shall, in COnSe
quence of any Law or Regulation there
in, be discharged from such Service or
Labour, but shall be delivered up on
Claim of the Party to whom such Serv-
ice or Labour may be due
Section 8. New States may be ad
mitted 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 Con-
sent of the Legislatures Of the States
concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to
dispose of and make all needful Rules
and Regulations respecting the Terri
tory or other Property belonging to the
United States; and nothing in this Con-
stitution shall be so construed as to
Prejudice any Claims of the United
States. or of any particular State.
Section a. The United States shall
guarantee to every State in this Union
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shall protect each of them against In
vasion: and on Application of the Leg
islature, or of the Executive (when the
Legislature cannot be ccnyened) against
domestic Violence.
ARTICLE V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds
of both Houses shall deem it necessary,
shall propose Amendments TO this Con-
Stitution. or. on the Application Of the
Legislatures of two thirds of the sew
eral States. shall call a Convention for
proposing Amendments, which, in either
Case. shall be valid TO all Intents and
Purposes. as Part of this Constitution
when ratified by the Legislatures of
three fourths of the several States. or
by Conventions in three fourths thereof
as the one or the other Mode of Ratifi-
cation may be proposed by the Con
gress: Provided that no Amendment
which may be made prior TO the Year
one Thousand eight hundred and eight
shall in any Manner affect the first and
fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section OF
tie nrSt Article; and that no State
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