fices during good behavior, and sl times, receive for their services, a which shall not be diminished dur tinuance in office.

SECTION II.-Extension of Judicial P Court Jurisdiction. Trials by

1. The judicial power shall exte in law and equity, arising under thi the laws of the United States, an made, or which shall be made, un thority; to all cases affecting amba public ministers, and consuls; to admiralty and maritime jurisdictio versies to which the United Stat party; to controversies between states-between a state and citize state-between citizens of differe tween citizens of the same state under grants of different states-a state, or the citizens thereof, and citizens, or subjects.

2. In all cases affecting amba public ministers, and consuls, and t a state shall be a party, the supre have original jurisdiction. In all t before mentioned, the supreme co appellate jurisdiction, both as to with such exceptions, and under suc as the congress shall make.

3. The trial of all crimes, excep impeachment, shall be by jury; a shall be held in the state where th shall have been committed; but w

Iwithin any state, the trial shall be at such or places as the congress may by law have ed.

SECTION III.-Treason.

Treason against the United States, shall st only in levying war against them, or in ing to their enemies, giving them aid and ort. No person shall be convicted of treason s on the testimony of two witnesses to the overt act, or on confession in open court.

The congress shall have power to declare punishment of treason, but no attainder of on shall work corruption of blood, or forfeitexcept during the life of the person attainted.

ARTICLE IV.

SECTION I.-Acts of States Accredited.

Full faith and credit shall be given in each e to the public acts, records, and judicial prolings of every other state. And the congress by general laws prescribe the manner in ch such acts, records, and proceedings shall roved, and the effect thereof.

TION II.-Citizens' Privileges. Persons charged with Crimes fleeing.

. The citizens of each state shall be entitled ll privileges and immunities of citizens in the eral states.

. A person charged in any state with treason, ny, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, 1 be found in another state, shall, on demand the executive authority of the state from which fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the te having jurisdiction of the crime.

3. No person held to service or state, under the laws thereof, esca other, shall, in consequence of any l tion therein, be discharged from su labor, but shall be delivered up, on party to whom such service or labor Ter

SECTION III.-New States.

1. New states may be admitted by into this Union; but no new state sh or erected within the jurisdiction state, nor any state be formed by th two or more states, or parts of the s the consent of the legislatures of cerned, as well as of the congress.

2. The congress shall have pow of, and make all needful rules and r specting the territory or other prope to the United States; and nothing tution shall be so construed as to claims of the United States, or of

state.

SECTION IV.-States protect

1. The United States shall guara state in this union a republican for ment, and shall protect each of the vasion; and on application of the le of the executive, when the legislat convened,) against domestic violence

ARTICLE V.

Amendments, how attained

1. The congress, whenever two houses shall deem it necessary,

ents to this constitution, or on the appliof the legislatures of two thirds of the states, shall call a convention for proposendments, which in either case shall be

all intents and purposes, as part of this ution, when ratified by the legislatures of Fourths of the several states, or by convenn three fourths thereof, as the one or the mode of ratification may be proposed by the ess; provided that no amendment which e made prior to the year one thousand eight ed and eight, shall in any manner affect the nd fourth clauses in the ninth section of the article; and that no state, without its conshall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the

e.

ARTICLE VI.

prior to the adoption of the Constitution. Trea, law of the land. Oath or affirmation to mem

S.

All debts contracted and engagements enI into, before the adoption of this constitution, be as valid against the United States under constitution, as under the confederation.

This constitution, and the laws of the United es, which shall be made in pursuance thereand all treaties made, or which shall be made, er the authority of the United States, shall be supreme law of the land; and the judges in ry state shall be bound thereby, anything in constitution or laws of any state to the conry notwithstanding.

3. The senators and representatives before ntioned, and the members of the several state islatures, and all executive and judicial offi

cers, both of the United States and states, shall be bound by oath or support this constitution: but no shall ever be required as a qualif office or public trust under the Unit

ARTICLE VII.

Ratification.

1. The ratification of the conve states, shall be sufficient for the est this constitution between the state the same.

Done in convention, by the unanimou states present, the seventeenth day of year of our Lord one thousand seve eighty seven, and of the independenc States of America, the twelfth. In we have hereunto subscribed our names GEO. WASHIN President and Deputy f