IV.  Amerika,  1359  193.  Ver.  St.  v.  Am.

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  3.  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
a8  of  the  Congress.

The  Congress  shall  have  power  to  dispose  of  and  make  all  needful  rules  and
regulations  respecting  the  territory  or  other  property  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  4.  The  United  States  shall  guarantee  to  every  State  in  this  Union
&amp;  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
cannot  be  convened)  against  domestic  violence.

Article  V.

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.

Artiele  VI.

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

This  Constitution,  and  the  laws  of  the  United  States  which  shall  be  made  in
pursuance  thereof;  and  all  treaties  made,  or  which  shall  be  made,  under  the  authority
of  the  United  States,  shall  be  the  supreme  law  of  the  land,  and  the  judges  in  every
State  shall  be  bound  thereby,  any  thing  in  the  constitution  or  laws  of  any  State  to
the  contrary  notwithstanding.

The  Senators  and  Representatives  before  mentioned,  and  the  members  of  the
several  State  Legislatures,  and  all  executive  and  judicial  officers,  both  of  the
United  States  and  the  several  States,  shall  be  bound  by  oath  or  affirmation,  to
support  this  Constitution;  but  no  religious  test  shall  ever  be  required  as  a  qualification
  to  any  office  or  public  trust  under  the  United  States.