IV.  Amerika.  1358  193.  Ver.  St.  v.  Am.

ordain  and  establish.  The  judges,  both  of  the  Supreme  and  inferior  courts,  shall
hold  their  offices  during  good  behaviour,  and  shall,  at  stated  times,  receive  for  their
services  a  compensation,  which  shall  not  be  diminished  during  their  continuance
in  office.

Section  2.  The  judicial  power  shall  extend  to  all  cases,  in  law  and  equity,
arising  under  this  Constitution,  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  and  treaties  made,
or  which  shall  be  made,  under  their  authority;  to  all  cases  affecting  ambassadors,
other  public  ministers  and  consuls;  to  all  cases  of  admirality  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  States  claiming
lands  under  grants  of  different  States,  and  between  a  State,  or  the  citizens  thereof,
and  foreign  states,  citizens  or  subjects.

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.

The  trial  of  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  3.  Tresson  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  tresson  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  or  forfeiture  except  during  the
life  of  the  person  attainted.

Article  IV.

Section  1.  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.

Sections  2.  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  to  be  removed  to  the
State  having  jurisdietion  of  the  crime.

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