IV.
Sect. 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.
Sect. 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all
privileges aad 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, and removed to the state
having jurisdiction of the crime.
No person legally held to service or labour in one state,
escaping into another, shall in consequence of regulations
subsisting therein be discharged from such service or labor,
but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such
service or labour may be due.
Sect. 3. New states may be admitted 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 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 regulatians 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.
Sect. 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 executive, against domestic violence.
