    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 119th Congress]
    [119th Congress]
    [House Document 118-187]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 85-87]
    [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.

    Sec. 184. Privileges and immunities of citizens.

        Section 2.
    \1\ The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and
    Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

    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.

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    shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or
    Labour may be due.

    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

    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.

      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).

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    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.