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I?ECOI?DS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE OF STYLE ent States, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens or subjects. In cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the su- preme court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the supreme court shall have appel- late 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 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. Sect. 3- 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 confession in open court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood nor forfeiture, except during the llfe of the person attainted. IV. Sect. I. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. Sect. z. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states. A person charged in any state with treason, 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, and removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime. No person legally held to service or labour in one state, escaping into another, shall in consequence of regulations