g jurisdiction of the
crime.

Clause 3. No person held to service or labor in one state, under the
laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or
regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall
be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may
be due.

SECTION III. New States and Territories.

Clause 1. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union,
but no new state shall 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 of states, without the consent of the Legislatures of
the states concerned, as well as of the Congress.

Clause 2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all
needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other properly
belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall
be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States or of
any particular state.

SECTION IV. Guarantee to the States.

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a
republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against
invasion; and, on application of the Legislature, or of the executive
(when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence.

ARTICLE V. POWER OF AMENDMENT.

The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses 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 a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case,
shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this
Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the
several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one
or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress;
provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one
thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first
and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first Article; and that
no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage
in the Senate.

ARTICLE VI. PUBLIC DEBT, SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION, OATH OF OFFICE,
RELIGIOUS TEST.

Clause 1. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the
adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United
States under th