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.
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 any 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 may be due.
Section 3
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.
The Congress 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 shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
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 Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Analysis & Application
This article outlines the rights of states and their citizens. Each state receives the same full faith and credit as other states.
Each state within the country receives equal treatment from the government. No state favors citizens from their state over citizens of other states.
Each citizen is treated as a citizen of the U.S. at large, and not simply of their respective state, establishing they have the same rights across all states.
New states can be added to the country, but cannot be made from the land of existing states. The United States is able to expand the number of states it has, but not from dividing states up into other states.
Each state receives, from the United States, a form of government and protection.
This establishes that the United States provides support and defense for their states.
This article applies to our lives because every citizen of the country is also a citizen of a particular state- without these articles, it is possible that there could be unfair treatment of out-of-state citizens and other situations dealt with in this article.