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Maryland State Archives Baltimore City Directory, 1814-1815 msa_sc5923_1_1-0222 Enlarge and print image (439K) |
| SECTION JIT. I. 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-without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the congress. 1L The congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respect- ing the territory or other propeUy 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 IV. 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 legis'ature, or of the ex- ecutive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence. ARTICLE V, The congress, whenever two thirds of both bouse* shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of the 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 ci- tified by the legislatures oi three fourths of the se- veral states, or by convention in three fourths there- of, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be oposed by the congress ; Provided, that no a- mend incut which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall in ai * man r aiFect the first ajid fourth claj in the |