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. Drivers’ Licenses (Interstate Compact, 45 states –(MI, WI, GA, MA, TN)), marriage licenses [note: Obergefell v Hodges], divorce decrees, and most importantly: Court judgments.
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 (extradition). States cannot treat citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner. Right to be protected from state gov’t; acquire and possess private property travel through or reside in any state; same tax treatment; to sue and defend oneself in court not absolute: out-of-state tuition is OK; doctors, attorneys, teachers from out of state may require new licensing to practice: professional standards;
Note: This section had Fugitive Slave Law/ voided by the 13th amendment
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 the 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.
Admission Procedures
1. Petition to Congress
2. Enabling Act
3. State Constitution
4. Popular Vote
5. Congressional consideration
6. Act of Admission
7. Presidential approval
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 the application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.