States, shall consist only in levying War Congress. The Congress shall have Power All Debts contracted and Engagements Done in Convention by the Unanimous against them, or in adhering to their to dispose of and make all needful Rules entered into, before the Adoption of this Consent of the States present the Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. and Regulations respecting the Territory Constitution, shall be as valid against the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year No Person shall be convicted of Treason or other Property belonging to the United United States under this Constitution, as of our Lord one thousand seven hundred unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses States; and nothing in this Constitution under the Confederation. This and Eighty seven and of the Independence to the same overt Act, or on Confession in shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Constitution, and the Laws of the United of the United States of America the open Court. The Congress shall have Claims of the United States, or of any States which shall be made in Pursuance Twelfth In witness whereof We have Power to declare the Punishment of particular State. thereof; and all Treaties made, or which hereunto subscribed our Names, Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall Section. 4. The United States shall shall be made, under the Authority of the G°. Washington work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture guarantee to every State in this Union a United States, shall be the supreme Law of Presidt and deputy from Virginia except during the Life of the Person Republican Form of Government, and the Land; and the Judges in every State attainted. shall protect each of them against shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Delaware: Geo: Read, Gunning Bedford Invasion; and on Application of the Constitution or Laws of any State to the jun, John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Article. IV. Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Contrary notwithstanding. The Senators Jaco: Broom Section. 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be Legislature cannot be convened), against and Representatives before mentioned, Maryland: James McHenry, Dan of St given in each State to the public Acts, domestic Violence. and the Members of the several State Thos. Jenifer, Danl. Carroll Records, and judicial Proceedings of every Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Virginia: John Blair, James Madison Jr. other State. And the Congress may by Article. V. Officers, both of the United States and of general Laws prescribe the Manner in North Carolina: Wm. Blount, Richd. the several States, shall be bound by Oath which such Acts, Records and The Congress, whenever two thirds of Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson Proceedings shall be proved, and the both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall or Affirmation, to support this South Carolina: J. Rutledge, Charles Effect thereof. Section. 2. The Citizens of propose Amendments to this Constitution, Constitution; but no religious Test shall Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, each State shall be entitled to all Privileges or, on the Application of the Legislatures ever be required as a Qualification to any Pierce Butler and Immunities of Citizens in the several of two thirds of the several States, shall Office or public Trust under the United Georgia: William Few, Abr Baldwin States. A Person charged in any State with States. Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who call a Convention for proposing New Hampshire: John Langdon, Amendments, which, in either Case, shall Nicholas Gilman shall flee from Justice, and be found in Article. VII. another State, shall on Demand of the be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Massachusetts: Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus executive Authority of the State from Part of this Constitution, when ratified by The Ratification of the Conventions of King which he fled, be delivered up, to be the Legislatures of three fourths of the nine States, shall be sufficient for the Connecticut: Wm. Saml. Johnson, Roger removed to the State having Jurisdiction several States, or by Conventions in three Establishment of this Constitution Sherman of the Crime. No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws fourths thereof, as the one or the other between the States so ratifying the Same. New York: Alexander Hamilton thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Mode of Ratification may be proposed by The Word, "the," being interlined between New Jersey: Wil: Livingston, David Consequence of any Law or Regulation the Congress; Provided that no the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Brearley, Wm. Paterson, Jona: Dayton: therein, be discharged from such Service Amendment which may be made prior to Page, the Word "Thirty" being partly Pennsylvania: B Franklin, Thomas or Labour, but shall be delivered up on the Year One thousand eight hundred and written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line Mifflin, Robt. Morris, Geo. Clymer, Thos. Claim of the Party to whom such Service eight shall in any Manner affect the first of the first Page, The Words "is tried" FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James or Labour may be due. Section. 3. New States may be admitted and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of being interlined between the thirty second Wilson, Gouv Morris the first Article; and that no State, without and thirty third Lines of the first Page and by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal the Word "the" being interlined between within the Jurisdiction of any other State; Suffrage in the Senate. the forty third and forty fourth Lines of the nor any State be formed by the Junction of second Page. two or more States, or Parts of States, Article. VI. without the Consent of the Legislatures of Attest William Jackson Secretary the States concerned as well as of the

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