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.
Officials acts, records, or judgements of one state will be honored in every other state. Congress may pass laws saying what kinds of proof must be offered. (This means, for example, that a marriage or a will or a court decision that is legal in one state will be recognized by every state.)
1. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
2. 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.
3. No Person held to Service or Labour 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 Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
1. Citizens of a state will be protected by the laws of any state they happen to be in. (This does not include rights for which a person must live in the state, such as the right to vote.)
2. If a person commits a crime in one state and runs away to another state, the two states may agree to return the suspect to the first state to be tried. (The second state extradites the suspect to the first state.)
3. Slaves and other servants who run away from their masters to another state can be returned to their masters. (In 1865, Amendment 13 was adopted and made this clause meaningless. Amendment 13 outlaws slavery.)
1. 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.
2. 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.
1. Congress has the right to admit new states to the union. But a new state cannot be made out of another state or states without permission from the states involved.
2. Congress has the power to make laws for property, such as territories, that belongs to the federal government.
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.
The United States guarantees to every state:
a republican form of government (This is not defined. Most people agree it means that the people and their elected representatives run the government.)
protection from invasion
protection from riots or other violence within the state.