Section 5.1.

(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) Each State shall have the power to regulate or prohibit any activity that takes place within its borders, provided that no State regulation or prohibition shall infringe any enumerated or unenumerated right, liberty, privilege or immunity recognized by this Constitution.

(3) 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 Federation, with their property; and the right of property shall not be thereby impaired.

(4) A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime against the laws of such State, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the Governor of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.

(5) One or more States (or the people thereof by petition as provided for by law) shall have the power to call a special grand jury or appoint a special prosecutor with full legal powers, including the power to issue subpoenas, to investigate suspected ethics, civil, and/or criminal actions of all elected or appointed Federal public officials or Federal agencies if the Attorney General of the Federation, Congress, office of the President, or other responsible Federal authority does not take action to investigate.

Section 5.2.

(1) Other States may be admitted into this Federation 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 Federation may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territories or other protectorates belonging or controlled to the Federation, 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 for, to form States to be admitted into the Federation.

(3) For up to ten years after this Constitution is in force any State of the United States may become a State of this Federation by their adoption of this Constitution and shall not need the approval of Congress.

Section 5.3.

(1) The original Confederate States of America are recognized to consist of the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and those parts of the present States of Arizona and New Mexico below the 34th parallel and of Oklahoma East of the 100th meridian.

(2) Those parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma that were not part of the original Confederate States or Territories or other protectorates may choose to stay with the United States or remain as part of those States if the aforementioned States adopt this Constitution.

(3) If the States of Virginia and West Virginia join this Federation they may reunite as the Legislatures or the People thereof provide for by law without the consent of Congress and they shall be entitled to their joint representation in the House of Representatives until the next enumeration.

(4) The above mentioned States need only to adopt this Constitution to put it into effect, without the approval of Congress.

Section 5.4.

(1) Proposed restrictions on or taking of land and other real property owned, restricted, or controlled by the Federation may be claimed or challenged by the State where it is located. If the Federation cannot justify ownership as vital to the national defense or to carry out the duties of this Constitution, the property shall not be taken but returned or sold to the State.

(2) Each State shall have the power to create its own Supreme Court and other Lower Courts as provided for by their Constitution. Any legal controversy that is solely within a single State shall only be appealed to a Federal Court if the State Supreme Court or equivalent judicial body refuses to hear it. The decision of the State Supreme Court or equivalent judicial body shall be the final authority for all laws (including laws passed by the Congress) for that individual State and shall be appealed only to the Federation Supreme Court.

(3) Except for acts of war each State shall have the primary responsibility, control, and command for its planning and long term recovery from any disaster and may enter into compacts with other States and the Federation for mutual planning and lateral support. Upon a disaster declaration by the President the Congress may, by law, authorize funds for first response emergency relief only.

(4) States shall not be restrained from prohibiting the importation or exportation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever.

(5) States shall have the power to regulate the exploration, mining, or recovery of natural resources, water, oil, or other minerals on non-Federal property or inside of twelve nautical miles off the ocean coasts.

(6) No State shall, without its consent, be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate.

(7) The Federation shall guarantee to every State a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the Legislature, or of the Governor (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

Section 5.5.

(1) No State, while remaining a member of this Federation, shall nullify or refuse to obey this Constitution, or any law passed by the Congress but upon application of the Legislatures of one-third of the States, any law, regulation, Court decision, or order of the Federation shall be rescinded.

(2) If any State shall fail or refuse to conform to a decision by any Federal Court on any issue the Congress may withdraw from such States all or any portion of the privileges and benefits of this Federation, without releasing such State from the duties and obligations thereof.

Section 5.6.

(1) Each State shall have an inalienable and irrefutable right of secession and when any State shall desire to withdraw from this Federation, such desire shall be communicated to the Congress of the Federation, upon the approval of two-thirds of the Citizens thereof, specifically setting forth the causes of such desire to withdraw.

(2) Congress shall consider the alleged grievances, and, on failure to redress or accommodate the same, to the satisfaction of the complaining State or of the Federation, shall arrange with such State an equitable division of the public property, and a peaceable withdrawal from the Federation.

(3) But no State by withdrawing from this Federation in the manner herein provided, nor in any other manner, shall be discharged or released from the obligation to pay a due proportion of the public debt existing at the time of such withdrawal; and such withdrawal shall, moreover, oblige the State withdrawing to account with the Federation for all expenditures made, or liabilities incurred by the Federation, in acquiring, securing, fortifying or defending the territory or jurisdiction of such State.

Section 5.7.

(1) All able-bodied persons who are eighteen years or older and are not ineligible to keep and bear arms as provided for elsewhere in this Constitution, are not a member of the Armed Forces, National Guard, or an elected public official are members of the unorganized State Militia and may be deputized and assembled into a State Militia or Posse to assist in the keeping of the peace and the enforcement of laws when called upon by legal civilian or police leadership.

(2) Each State, Territory, or other protectorates may, by law, create organized and unorganized State (or Territorial) Militias, which may consist of air, land, and naval components, but no Federal monies shall be expended unless the State Militia is assigned a mission by the Congress or called into national service as provided for in this Constitution but State Militias shall have the right of first refusal of any surplus military, provided the State bears all costs of transfer, and other useful equipment or supplies before it is disposed of to other private or public entities.

(3) The Governor of State, Territory, or other protectorates shall be the Commander-in-Chief of the State Militia and shall not be called up for Federal service by the President for service within the home State, in another State, Territory, other protectorates, or foreign nations without the permission of the Governor and shall be paid and regulated in the same manner as the National Guard.

Section 5.8.

No State shall have the power:

(1) To enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin money; make anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.

(2) Without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports, or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the Federation; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of Congress.

(3) Without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on tonnage, except on sea-going vessels, for the improvement of its rivers and harbors navigated by the said vessels; but such duties shall not conflict with any treaties of the Federation with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue, thus derived, shall, after making such improvement, be paid into the Treasury. Nor shall any State enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign nation, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. When a transportation route crosses over, under, or through two or more States or where any natural river or manmade waterway divides or flows through two or more States, they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.

(4) To enumerate or classify any individual by race, sex, color, ethnicity, religion, handicap, or national origin for any purpose nor shall require the same as a criterion for discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group for any public purpose.

(5) To exclude itself or any member of the Legislature from any law of the State.

(6) To pass any law that benefits or profits any individual member of the Legislature or their immediate family or any Citizen or group of Citizens, or private and public organizations except for laws of relief that correct any injustice done either on purpose or accidentally to a Citizen.

(7) To pass any law granting to any association, corporation, unions, or individuals any exclusive rights, privileges, immunities, or to setup any affirmative action or quota set aside programs or grant monopolies or perpetuities.

(8) To pass any unfunded mandates on any public or private citizen or entity.

(9) To control, deny, or mandate the requirements or qualifications for membership in any private group or organization.

(10) To establish standards and requirements for non-government public schools and colleges or home schooling that is stricter than similar standards and requirements for government public schools and colleges.

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(11) To make any law that does not apply equally to all political subdivisions, Citizens, and elected or appointed public officials.