If any person guilty of dr charged with treafon, felony, or other high misdemeanour in any State, fhall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he fhall, upon demand of the governor or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.

Full faith and credit fhall be given in each of thefe States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts and magiftrates of every other State.

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ARTICLE V.

-For the more convenient management of the general interefts of the United States, delegates fhall be annually appointed in fuch manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November of every year, with a power referved to each State to recal its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to fend others in their ftead, for the remainder of the year.

No State fhall be reprefented in Congress by lefs than two, nor more than feven, members; and no person shall be capable of being a dele

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gate for more than three years, in any term of fix years; nor fhall any perfon, being a dele gate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or any other for his benefit, receives any falary, fees, or emolument, of any kind.

Each State fhall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States, and while they act as members of the committee of the States.

In determining questions in the United States in Congress affembled, each State fhall have

one vote.

Freedom of fpeech and debate in Congrefs fhall not be impeached or queftioned in any court or place out of Congrefs, and the members of Congrefs fhall be protected in their perfons from arrefts and imprisonments during the time of their going to and from and at tendance on Congrefs, except for treason, felony, or a breach of the peace.

ARTICLE VI.

No State, without the confent of the United States in Congrefs affembled, fhall fend any embaffy to, or receive any embaffy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance, or treaty, with any King, Prince, or State; nor fhall

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fhall any person holding any office of profit or truft under the United States, or any of them, accept of any prefent, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State; nor fhall the United States in Congress affembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility.

2. No two or more States fhall enter into any treaty, confederation, or alliance whatever between them, without the confent of the United States in Congrefs affembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the fame is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue.

3. No State fhall lay any impofts or duties which may interfere with any ftipulations in treaties entered into by the United States in Congrefs affembled, with any King, Prince, or State, in pursuance of any treaties already propofed by Congrefs to the courts of France and Spain.

4. No veffels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except fuch number only as fhall be deemed neceffary by the United States in Congrefs affembled for the defence of fuch State, or its trade; nor fhall any body of forces be kept up by any State, in time of peace,

except fuch number only as in the judgement of the United States in Congress affembled shall be deemed requifite to garrison the forts neceffary for the defence of fuch State; but every State fhall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined militia, fufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field-pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition, and camp equipage.

5. No State shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States in Congress affembled, unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a refolution being formed by fome nation of Indians to invade fuch State, and the danger is fo imminent as not to admit of a delay till the United States in Congress affembled can be confulted: nor fhall any State grant commiffions to any fhips or veffels of war, nor letters of marque or reprifal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress affembled, and then only against the Kingdom or State and the subjects thereof against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be esta

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blifhed by the United States in Congress af→ fembled, unless fuch State be infested by pirates; in which cafe veffels of war may be fitted out for that occafion, and kept fo long as the danger fhall continue, or until the United States in Congress affembled fhall determine otherwise.

ARTICLE VII.

When land forces are raised by any State for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel fhall be appointed by the legiflature of each State refpectively by whom fuch forces fhall be raised, or in fuch manner as fuch State fhall direct, and all vacancies fhall be filled up by the State which firft made the appointment.

ARTICLE VIII.

All charges of war, and all other expences that fhall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress affembled, fhall be defrayed out of a common treafury, which fhall be fupplied by the feveral States, in proportion to the value of all land within each State, granted to or furveyed for any perfon, as fuch land and the buildings and improvements thereon fhall be estimated, according to fuch mode as the