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. Section 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 jurisdiction 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 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 states 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. 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 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 cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Article four of the Constitution talks about the responsibilities of the states and the federal government’s responsibilities to the states. Article four has four different sections that are broken down into clauses. There are many requirements outlined by article four of the Constitution, explaining the relationships of states to each other. Each state of the U.S. must respect the rules of other states. Another main point of Article four is that citizens of one state will have the same privileges as citizens of all other states. Criminals that escape from a state must be brought back to the original state. A responsibility of the federal government to the states is that the government will protect states against invasion and local violence. New states can be admitted into the U.S. but they cannot be formed from already existing states without the consent of the state and congress. Section one of Article four is known as that Full Faith and Credit Clause requires states to extend credit, court proceedings, and records to other states. Section two, clause one states that states shall protect privileges of the people. Clause two says that any criminal who goes to another state must be returned to the original state. Clause three of Section two is called the fugitive slave clause, any slave that goes to another state will be brought back. This clause is no longer in use due to the 13th Amendment. Section three explains about federal states and any new states. Clause one says that new states can be admitted with the consult of the Congress. Clause two is known as that Territorial Clause, stating that the Congress has final say over territory. Section four explains the obligations the U.S. has to the states. Clause one of section four says that the federal government must guarantee each state a Republic government. Clause two protects states from invasion.