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OF FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE.

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. [See 4 Johns. Ch. R. 106.]

OF FUGITIVE SLAVES.

S. No person held to service or labour 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 labour, but shall be delivered up, on the claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. [See 2 S. and R. S06. 3 S. and R. 4. 5 S. and R. 62.]

OF THE ADMISSION OF NEW STATES.

SECT. III. 1. New states may be admitted by 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 Congress.

OF TERRITORIES.

2. Congress 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.

OF STATE FORMS OF GOVERNMENT.

SECT. 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.

ARTICLE V.

OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.

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 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 ratification may be proposed by Congress: 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 the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

ARTICLE VI.

OF PUBLIC DEBT.

SECT. I. All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

OF THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND.

SECT. II. This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.

OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL OATH, AND A RELIGIOUS TEST.

SECT. III. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, under the United States.

ARTICLE VII.

The ratification of the Conventions of nine states shall be sufficient for the establishment

of this Constitution, between the states so ratifying the same.

Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the states present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the twelfth. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President, and Deputy from Virginia.

New Hampshire.

John Langdon,

Nicholas Gilman.

Massachusetts.

Nathaniel Gorham,

Rufus King.

Connecticut.

William Samuel Johnson,

Roger Sherman.

New York.

Alexander Hamilton.

New Jersey.

William Livingston,

David Brearly,

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