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  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.
  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.
  SECTION 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this
union; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdic-
tion 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 legisla-
tures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
  The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful
rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property be-
longing 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.
  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 execu-
tive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic
violence.
                              ARTICLE V

  The 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 the 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, with-
out its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate.

                              ARTICLE VI

  All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the ad~op-
tion of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States
under this Constitution, as under the confederation.
  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 constituti~on or laws of any state to the contrary
notwithstanding.
  The senators and representatives beforementioned, and the *members
of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers,'
both of the United States and of the-several States, ýshall 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 ratify-
ing the same.