U.S. Constitution - Bill of Rights
Article IV
Section 1. 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 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 fled,
be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction
of the crime. 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. Section 3. New
states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but
no new states 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. 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 4. 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.
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