[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 107th Congress]
[107th Congress]
[House Document 106-320]
[The United States Constitution]
[Pages 76-78]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


 

                               ARTICLE IV.



Sec. 183. Each State to give credit to acts, 
records, etc., of other States.

  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. 
\1\ The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and 
Immunities of Citizens in the several States.



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Sec. 185. Extradition for treason, felony, or other 
crime.

  \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.





Sec. 186. Persons held to service or labor.

  \3\ 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 
Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.




Sec. 187. Admission and formation of new 
States.

  Section 3. \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 Legislatures of 
the States concerned as well as of the Congress.





Sec. 188. Power of Congress over territory and other 
national property.

  \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.




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  The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has held 
that the property clause does not prohibit the transfer of United States 
property to foreign nations through self-executing treaties. Edwards v. 
Carter, 580 F.2d 1055 (1978), cert. denied, 436 U.S. 907 (1978).






Sec. 189. Republican form of government and 
protection from domestic violence guaranteed to the States.

  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.