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I74 1%ECOl?DS OF THE FEDEP, AL CONVENTION CO1ViMITTEE OF DETAIL, IX to all Privileges & Immunities of free Citizens in the sevl States =0 Any person charged with Treason Felony or high Misde- meanor who shall flee from Justice & be found in any of the U States shall on demd of the executive power of the State from wh. he fled be delivd. up & removed to the State havg Jurisdn of (the tr) the Offence.- Full Faith & Credit &c) The United States shall guaranty to each State a Repub- lican form of Government; and shall protect each State against foreign Invasions, and, on the Application of its Legislature, against domestic Violence. This Constitution ought to be amended whenever such amendment shall become necessary; and on the Application of (two thirds) the Legislatures of two thirds of the States of the Union, the Legislature of the United States shall call a Convention for that Purpose. The Members of the Legislatures, and the executive and judicial Officers of the United States, and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath to support this Constitution. ((In order to introduce this Governnt)) (Resolved) (That) this Constitution proposed (by this Convention to the People of the United States for their Approbation should) (shall> be laid before the United States in Congress assembled for their (Agreement and Recommendation) (Approbation) and (that in the opinn. of this Conventn. it shd) be afterwards submitted to a Convention chosen in each State, under the Recommendations of its Legislature in Order to receive the Ratification of such Convention. Resolved (In order to introde. this Govt it is the oplnn of this Convn that) That the Ratification of the Conventions of States shall be sufficient for organizing this Constitution. (That each) each' assenting Convention (in each) (shall) (shd.) notify its Assent and Ratification to the United States in ?0 Pinckney daimed to have introduced this clause into the Constitution, see Appendix A, CCCX. XXVIII.