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The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall beby jury, and such trial shall be held in the state where the said Jllr5 ,ri “ lcrimes shall have been committed; but when not committed in any state, thetrial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
SECTION III.
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying waragainst them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and Trellson -comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony oftwo witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason : but noattainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except duringthe life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE IV.-SECTION I.
Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, credit byrecords, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the con- st ) ?' a s c t t °P£ bgress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, each other,records, and proceedings, shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
SECTION II.
The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and im-munities of citizens in the several states. Citizenship.
A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, Fugitiveswho shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, 0 n from i uslice -demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be deliveredup, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
No person held to service or labor in one state under the lawsthereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or ° m a ° r 'regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be de-livered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
SECTION III.
New states may be admitted by the congress into this union ; butno new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any cw sta,e3 'other state, nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, orparts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned,as well as of the congress.
The congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful Terrjlori , srules and regulations respecting the territory or other property be- ' '
longing to the United States ; and nothing in this constitution shall be so con-strued as to prejudice any claims of the United States , or of any particularstate.
SECTION IV.
The United States shall guaranty to every state in this union, a Guarantee ofrepublican form of government, and shall protect each of them republicanagainst invasion ; and, on application of the legislature, or of the ex- s° vernment -ecutive, (when the legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence.
article v.
The congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it Amend-necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution ; or, on theapplication of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call aconvention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid toall intents and purposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by the leois-latures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourthsthereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by thecongress; provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the yearone thousand eight hundred and eight, shall in any manner affect the first and