Assignment 4

Article IV, 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. No person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of an 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 be due. I chose this Article because it is alarming to me that the Constitution has a clause referring to the escaping of slaves. I am a history major and did not know this fact. It is a disgrace. I know that it was a problem with the Framers who were for the most part against slavery, but knew that if they had a clause freeing the slaves the Constitution would not have passed into law.Read moreShow less