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Georgetown Center for the Constitution

Interstate Rendition Clause

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.

Article IV

Section 2

Clause 2

Related Citations

Christopher N. Lasch, Rendition Resistance, 92 N.C. L. Rev. 149 (2013).

Tracing the history of the rendition of fugitives from justice and fugitive slaves pursuant to the Extradition and Fugitive Slave Clauses of the Constitution.