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State jurisdiction |
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States must respect the jurisdiction of other states by returning any fugitives to the state in which a crime was alleged to have occurred. Also, new states cannot be formed out of existing states without the consent of both Congress and the legislatures of the affected state(s).
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Citation
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Article 4, Section 2, Clause 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.
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Article 4, Section 3, Clause 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.
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