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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



courts, shall hold their offices during good be- 

 havior, and shall at stated times receive for 

 their services a compensation which shall not 

 be diminished during their continuance in 

 office. 



SECTION II. 1. The judicial power shall 

 extend to all cases in law and equity arising 

 under this Constitution, the laws of the United 

 States, and treaties made, or which shall be 

 made, under their authority ; to all cases af- 

 fecting ambassadors, other public ministers, 

 and consuls ; to all cases of admiralty and 

 maritime jurisdiction ; to controversies to 

 which the United States shall be a party ; to 

 controversies between two or more States, be- 

 tween a State and citizens of another State, 

 between citizens of different States, between 

 citizens of the same State claiming lands under 

 grants of different States, and between a State, 

 or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, 

 citizens, or subjects. 



2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other 

 public ministers, and consuls, and those in 

 which a State shall be party, the Supreme Court 

 shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other 

 cases before mentioned the Supreme Court 

 shall have appellate jurisdiction both as to law 

 and fact, with such exceptions and under such 

 regulations as the Congress shall make. 



3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of 

 impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial 

 shall be held in the State where the said crimes 

 shall have been committed ; but when not 

 committed within any State the trial shall be 

 at such place or places as the Congress may by 

 law have directed. 



SECTION III. 1. Treason against the United 

 States shall consist only in levying war against 

 them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving 

 them aid and comfort. No person shall be 

 convicted of treason unless on the testimony of 

 two witnesses to the same overt act, or on con- 

 fession in open court. 



2. The Congress shall have power to declare 

 the punishment of treason, but no attainder 

 of treason shall work corruption of blood or 

 forfeiture except during the life of the person 

 attained. 



ARTICLE IV. 



SECTION I. Full faith and credit shall be 

 given in each State to the public acts, records, 

 and judicial preceedings of every other State. 

 And the Congress may by general laws pre- 

 scribe the manner in which such acts, records 

 and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect 

 thereof. 



SECTION II. 1. The citizens of each State 

 shall be entitled to all privileges and immuni- 

 ties of citizens in the several States. 



2. A person charged in any State with trea- 

 son, 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 re- 

 moved to the State having jurisdiction of the 

 crime. 



3. No person held to service or labor in one 

 State, under the laws thereof, escaping into 

 another shall, in consequence of any law or 

 regulation therein, be discharged from such ser- 

 vice or labor, but shall be delivered up on 

 claim of the party to whom such service or 

 labor may be due. 



SECTION III. 1. New States may be ad- 

 mitted 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 con- 

 cerned, as well as of the Congress. 



2. The Congress shall have power to dis- 

 pose of and make all needful rules and regula- 

 tions 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. 



SECTION IV. The United States shall guar- 

 antee 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 Executive (when the 

 Legislature cannot be convened), against do- 

 mestic 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, at 

 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 ratifi- 

 cation may be proposed by the Congress ; pro- 

 vided 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, without its 

 consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage 

 in the Senate. 



ARTICLE VI. 



1. All debts contracted and engagements 

 entered into before the adoption of this Con- 



