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.

1.Articles of Confederation, art. 4, ¶ 2, 1 Mar. 1781
2.James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 10 Mar. 1784
3.James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 16 Mar. 1784
4.Records of the Federal Convention
5.Charles Pinckney, Observations on the Plan of Government, 1787
6.United States v. Robins
7.State v. Howell
8.Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1802--3, 1833
9.Case of Jose Ferreira dos Santos
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