a Tender in payment of debts nor engage in War except for self defence when actually invaded or the danger of invasion is so great as not to admit of a delay until the Government of the United States can be informed thereof—& to render these prohibitions effectual the Legislature of the United States shall have the power to revise the laws of the several states that may be supposed to infringe the Powers exclusively delegated by the Constitution to Congress & to negative & annul such as do
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The Citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges & immunities of Citizens in the several states—
Any person charged with Crimes in any State fleeing from Justice to another shall on demand of the Executive of the State from which he fled be delivered up & removed to the State having jurisdiction of the Offense—
13
Full faith shall be given in each State to the acts of the Legislature & to the records & judicial Proceedings of the Courts & Magistrates of every State
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The Legislature shall have power to admit new States into the Union on the same terms with the original States provided two thirds of the members present in both houses agree
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On the application of the legislature of a State the United States shall protect it against domestic insurrections
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If Two Thirds of the Legislatures of the States apply for the same The Legislature of the United States shall call a Convention for the purpose of amending the Constitution—Or should Congress with the Consent of Two thirds of each house propose to the States amendments to the same—the agreement of Two Thirds of the Legislatures of the States shall be sufficient to make the said amendments Parts of the Constitution
The Ratifications of the Conventions of States shall be sufficient for organizing this Constitution——[1]
Only a few of the members of the Convention were still living
when the Journal was published in 1819, but two of those, King
and Madison, expressed privately their conviction that the docu-
- ↑ [Endorsed:] in Mr. Pinckney’s letter of Dec. 30, 1819.
