A Native of Virginia, Article IV
ARTICLE IV.
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Sect. 1. Full faith and credit ſhall be given in each State •o the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every •ther State. And the Congreſs may by general laws preſcribe •he manner in which ſuch acts, records, and proceedings shall •e proved, and the effect thereof.
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- quotes Article IV, Section 1, Clause 1 (suggested)
Sect. 2. The citizens of each State ſhall be entitled to all •rivileges and immunities of citizens in the ſeveral States.
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- quotes Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 (suggested)
A perſon charged in any State with treaſon, felony, or other •rime, who ſhall flee from juſtice, and be found in another State, •hall, on demand of the Executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having •uriſdiction of the crime.
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- quotes Article IV, Section 2, Clause 2 (suggested)
No perſon held to ſervice or labour in one State, under the •aws thereof, eſcaping into another, ſhall, in conſequence of any •aw or regulation therein, be diſcharged from ſuch ſervice or •abour, but ſhall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom •uch ſervice or labour may be due.
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- quotes Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3 (suggested)
THE convenience, juſtice, and utility, of theſe ſections, are •bvious.
AT preſent, ſlaves abſconding and going into ſome of the •orthern States, may thereby effect their freedom: But un•er the Federal Conſtitution they will be delivered up to the •awful proprietor.
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- cites Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3 (suggested)
Sect. 3. 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.
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- quotes Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 (suggested)
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.
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- quotes Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 (suggested)
UPON this ſection I ſhall only obſerve, that illiberal and groundleſs prejudices againſt the northern States too generally prevail in this country. Hence the unwarranted jealouſy of the politics of thoſe States. But were they well founded, the powers given under this ſection will manifeſtly tend to allay our fears of a northern combination. For as the greater portion of thoſe immenſe tracts of fertile land which remain uninhabited, or but thinly ſettled, and which are yet to be divided into new governments, lie on the ſouth-weſtern boundary; the ſouthern intereſt will be ſtrengthened by the Repreſentatives of the new States. Would we could forget our provincial prejudices, and conſider ourſelves as citizens of America!
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- cites Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 (suggested)
Sect. 4. The United States ſhall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and ſhall protect •ach of them againſt invaſion; and on application of the Legiſla•ure, or of the Executive (when the Legiſlature cannot be con••ned) againſt domeſtic violence.
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- quotes Article IV, Section 4, Clause 1 (suggested)
THIS is an additional proof of the caution of the framers of be Conſtitution, and how diſtant their views muſt have been •rom the deſign of introducing and eſtabliſhing an arbitrary •overnment.
Notes
The vulgar in Maſſachuſetts believe, that the practice of gouging in Virginia is ſo common, that half of its inhabitants have but one eye. This opinion is on a level with a declaration of a gentlemen high in office, in this country, who declared him ſelf againſt the Federal Government, becauſe the eaſtern people were all rogues.