SEC. I.—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 proceeding, shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
SEC. II.—1. THE CITIZENS OF EACH STATE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO ALL
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 fled, 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, 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.
SEC. III.—1. 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 Legislature of
the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.
2. 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.
SEC. IV.—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.