SECTION 4.1.
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.
2. The Congress or any State shall not take or place any restrictions on water rights or private land for public interests or use without being leased or purchased at just compensation from the lawful owner.
3. The Congress or any State shall not levy any tax or fee on any person's income from, or contribution-earnings or payments to any public or private education, retirement, pension, or health-care system. Any premiums or tuition paid by employers, Unions, or any person for their own or dependent's education, health, retirement and pension systems shall be fully immune from all taxes. State Legislatives may by law regulate and set standards and protections for retirement, pension, and health systems.
4. A State shall have the right to nullify within its borders any act of Congress that is in violation of this Constitution by a majority vote of its Legislative.
5. The proposed taking of land or current ownership of lands and other real property owned or controlled by the Confederate States may be claimed or challenged by the State where it is located. If the Confederate States cannot justify ownership as vital to the national defense or to carry out the duties of this Constitution, the property shall not be taken or returned back to the State or sold at an agreed amount with the proceeds being deposited in the Treasury.
SECTION 4.2.
1. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of Citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their [Deleted] property; and the right of property [Deleted] shall not be thereby impaired.
2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime against the laws of such State, who shall flee from Justices, 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.
3. Each State shall have the power to create its own Supreme Court and other inferior courts as provided for by their Constitution. The decision of the State Supreme Court shall be the final authority for all laws (including laws passed by the Confederate States Congress) for that individual State and shall not be appealed in any Confederate court unless a three-quarters majority of the Confederate States Supreme Court agrees to directly hear the case.
SECTION 4.3.
1. Other States may be admitted into this Confederacy by a vote of two-thirds of the whole House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate, the Senate voting by States; 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.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations concerning the property of the Confederate States, including the lands thereof.
3. The Confederate States may acquire new territory, and Congress shall have the power to legislate and provide Governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several States; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. Within five years after ratification of this Amendment, any current State of the United States may become a State of the Confederate States upon their ratification of this Constitution.
4. The Confederate States shall guaranty to every State that now is, or hereafter may become, a member of this Confederacy, a republican form of government; and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, (or of the executive, when the legislature is not in session,) against domestic violence.
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