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 RECOlDS OF THE FEDEP. AL CONVENTION COMMITTEE OF STYLE State, and the Legislature may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved and the effect thereof. XVII. New States may be admitted by the Legislature into this Union: but no new State shall be hereafter formed or erected within the jurisdiction of an 7 of the present States, wkhout the consent of the Legislature of such State as well as of the general Legislature. Nor shall any State be formed by the junction of two or more States or parts thereof without the consent of the Legislatures of such States as well as of the Legislature of the United States. The Legislature shall have 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 contained shall be so construed as to preju- dice any claims either of the United States or of any particular State. XVIII. The United States shall guaranty to each State a Republican form of government; and shall protect each State against invasions, and, on the application of its Legislature or Execu- tive, against domestic violence. XIX. The Legislature of the United States, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem necessary, or on the application of two thirds of the Legislatures of the several States, shall pro- pose amendments to this Constitution which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as parts thereof, when the same shall have been ratified by three fourths at least of the Legis- latures of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as one or the other mode of ratification may be pro- posed by the Legislature of the United-States: Provided that no amendments which may be made prior to the year I8o8. shall in any manner affect the 4th and 5th Sections of article the 7th

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