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the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper Section 3
in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying
Departments. War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that Aid and Comfort. No person shall be convicted of Treason unless
may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Com- on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on
missions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of
Section 3 Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration
such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, Article 4
on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of
them, and in Case of disagreement between them, with Respect Section 1
to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public
as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And
public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which
executed, and shall Commission all the officers of the United such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the
States. Effect thereof.
Section 4 Section 2
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and
States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
Conviction of, Treason, Bribery or other high Crimes and Mis- A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other
demeanors. Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State,
shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from
Article 3 which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having
Jurisdiction of the Crime.
Section 1 No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any
supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or La-
from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the bour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such
supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their offices during good Service or Labour may be due.
Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a
Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Con- Section 3
tinuance in Office. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but
no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of
Section 2 any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or
The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legisla-
arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and tures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;— The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all
to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other
Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;— Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this
to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims
Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and of the United States, or of any particular States.*
Citizens of another State;—between Citizens of different States;— Section 4
between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them
and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects. against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against do-
Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme mestic violence.
Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases be-
fore mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdic-
tion, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under Article 5
such Regulations as the Congress shall make. The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem
The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or,
be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several
said Crimes shall have been committed, but when not committed States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which,
within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part
Congress may by Law have directed. 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 pro-
posed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may
*The Constitution was submitted on September 17, 1787, by the be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight
Constitutional Convention, was ratified by the Convention of several shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth
states at various dates up to May 29, 1790, and became effective on Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent,
March 4, 1789. shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
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