CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITE Houses. or either of them, and in Case of pisagreement between them, with- Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he__may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take `Cere that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the 0m(!81'8_0f the United States. _ Saivrrozv. 4. The President, Yice President and all civil Omeers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment tor, and Conviction of, Treason, _Bribery,_ or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - Anncw III. Smmow. 1. The judicial Power of the United States, shall be · vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferio1·_Conrts as the Congress may from time to time ordain aud‘establi.<sh. The Judges. both ofnthe supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold _ their Ofhces during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be · diminished during their Contlnuance in Omce. _ . » Szcnox. 2. The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Lew and Fquity,. arising under this Constitution, the Laws · of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall'·be made, under their Authority ;—·-to all Gases at'l’ecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers `and Coneuls ;——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 ;-—between a State and Citizens of another State ;——between Citizens of different States.-4between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grantéx · of dmereut States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizensor Subjects. C `_ In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers . ‘ and Console, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all` theother Com 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. ‘ _ ‘ · \ · _ The Trial of all Crimes; except in Casesrot Impeachment, shall beby 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 he at such Plate or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed. Swrrox. 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against. them, or in adhering to their Enemi$. giving them Aid and Comfort. ·N0 Person shall be convicted of Treason nnlees on the Testimony ot. two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. ‘- The Congress shall. have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder ot Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or_Forfeitu1•e except during the Life of the Pereon attaintedf ‘ ` _ ` Aerrmx. IV. <» Section. 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State · to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings, of every · other,Stute. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings `shall be proved, and the Edect thereof, — ‘_ .- __ · Section. 2. The Gitizeas of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. A Person charged in any State with Trwn, Felony, or` other Crime, who shall ilee from Jnistice, and he found in · another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State {pom which he ded, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime. . _ NoPerson held to Serviceor Labour ln one State, under the Lowe thereof, escaping into another, shall, in_ Consequence of
n STATES 01+* A]lERIdC.1—-—-1787 1858 any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Serv. ice or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. Smcuox. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shell 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 uf States, without the Consent of the Legislaturee of the States concerned ns well as of the Congress. ‘ The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property helongingto the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shell be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State; ‘ S¤:cr10zq._4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, tank} shall protect eaeh of them ngainlst Invasion: end on Application of the·Legis,Iature, or of the Executive — (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. `Aumcm, V. _ The Congress, whenevertwo thirds of both Housw 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 :1 Convention for proposing Amenuments, whit·h,’ in either Case. shall he valid to ell Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, whetrretined by the Legislzitures of three fmirths of the several States, or by Conventions in thyeefonnrths thereof, ne the oneor the other Mode of Ratitication may` be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment `which may be nnnde prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shell. in any Manner 'uifect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first _Arti(~le; und that no•Stute, without its Consent, shall be deprived of itslequal Suffrage in the Senate. ` I Am·rc1.m.` VI. All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under thié Constitution, ns"] under the Confederation. · 2 . _ ` ’ This Constitution. and the Lews of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made. or which shall be made; under the Authority ot the United States, shall be thesupreme Lew of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any '1'hlng in the Con- . stitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding, The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members ot the several State_Legis}ntnres, and ell executive and judicial Qiiicers, both ot the ffnited Smtee and of the `several States, shall be bound by Oath er Amrxnatien. to eupport this Constitution; but no religions Test shall ever bearequired ns E1. Qualification to any Office or public Trust nnder the United Staten, "` °— ` A¤·r1cw`V1I. . The Ratification of the Conventions nf nine States, shall be eumcieut for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying w Same. nom: in Convention by` the Unanimous Consent of `the States present the Seventeenth Day of Seritember in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred end Eighty seven. and ot the Independence ot the United States of America the Twelfth. In wrmmss whereof We have hereunto subscribed - our Names, ‘ ° - 6* WASHINGTON—~Presi4? J t .t and deputy {reps Virgzimia Attest Wxnnmu Jwxscs Secretery `
