ity; to all
cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; 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; between citizens of the same state claiming lands
under grants of different states; and between a state, or the citizens
thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects.[3]
Clause 2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and
consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court,
shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases 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.
Clause 3. 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.
SECTION III. Treason.
Clause 1. 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.
Clause 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of
treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or
forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE IV.
SECTION I. State Records.
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.
SECTION II. Privileges of Citizens, etc.
Clause 1. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges
and immunities of citizens in the several states.
Clause 2. 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, to be removed to the state havin
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