ARTICLE 4. SECTION 1.
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.
- What does that mean (?????????????)
And the Congress may by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings
shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
- (IS CONGRESS CREATING THEIR OWN JOB DESCRIPTIONS? IF SO, CAN WE THE PEOPLE SEE THEM ONLINE OR ARE THEY SECRET?)
SECTION 2.
The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. (WHAT ARE THESE “PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES”?)
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 jurisdiction of the crime.
- (IS THIS A BOUNTY HUNTER’S JOB DESCRIPTION?)
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 deliver up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. (17).
(17). This clause was made obsolete when slavery was abolished.
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 as of the Congress.
- (WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS?)
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;
- (DEFINE/DESCRIBE EMINENT DOMAIN. CITE YOUR SOURCES, MINIMUM OF THREE EXAMPLES.)
and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed
as to prejudice any claims of the United States,
- (WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?)
or of any particular State.
SECTION 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government, and
- (THEN WHAT DO WE NEED THE DEMOCRATS FOR?)
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.
- (DOMESTIC VIOLENCE APPEARS TO BE RAMPANT IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR 2024? DESCRIBE THREE SCENARIOS OF SAME AND STATE CONSEQUENCES THAT YOU WOULD FIND APPROPRIATE FOR THE PERPETRATORS OF SAME. CITE YOUR SOURCES AND CONSIDER THE DAMAGE COMMITTED UPON THE VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ALSO AN ACT OF TERRORISM? IF SO, EXPLAIN YOUR RESPONSE.)
END OF Article 4.
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