CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S.A.

SECTION 3 TREASON

• Treason is the only crime defined in the constitution.

Congress has also made it a crime for person to commit espionage or sabotage, to attempt to overthrow the government by force, or to conspire to do any of these things.

ARTICLE IV SECTION I

• Each state must respect the laws, public records, and court decisions of every other state.

SECTION II

• No state can discriminate against the citizens of another state.

All fugitives must be returned to the state in which they committed the crime.

SECTION III

• Only congress can admit new states in the union.
• A new state may not be created by taking territory from an existing state.

Congress has the power to make laws concerning the territories, other public lands, and all other property of the United States.

SECTION IV

• The constitution does not define "a republican form of government," but the phrase is generally understood to mean a representative government.

The federal government must also defend each state against attacks from outside its border and, at the request of the states legislature or its governor, aid its efforts to put down internal disorders.

ARTICLE V

• An amendment may be proposed in one of two ways: by a 2/3 vote in each house of congress, or by a national convention called by congress at the request of 2/3 of the state senate.

ARTICLE VI SECTION I

• A provision, a pledge that the new government would honor those debts, did much to create confidence in the new government.

SECTION II

• No state including its local government may make or enforce any law that conflict with any provision in the constitution an act of congress a treaty or an order rule or regulation properly issued by the president or his subordinates in the executive branch.

SECTION III

• No religious qualification can be imposed as a condition for holding any public office.

ARTICLE VII

• The proposed constitution was signed by George Washington and 37 of his fellow farmers on September 17, 1787.