Articles of Confederation
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inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives
from Justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities
of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall
have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy
therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively,
provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any State, to any other State of which
the owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties or
restriction shall be laid by any State, on the property of the United States,
or either of them.
If any Person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high
misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of
the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or executive
power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to
the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records,
acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates to every other
State.
Art. V. For the more convenient management of the general interests
of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the
first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each
State, to recall its delegates, or any of them, at any time within the year,
and to send others in their stead, for the remainder of the Year.
No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by
more than seven Members; and no person shall be capable of being a
delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any
person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the
United States, for which he, or another for his benefit receives any salary,
fees or emolument of any kind.
Each State shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the States,
and while they act as members of the committee of the States.
In determining questions in the United States, in Congress assembled,
each State shall have one vote.
Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or