10/8 assignment

Article 4 section 2 of the Constitution:

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 labor 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 labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.

This article is very related to my previous blogs on citizenship. It gives citizens the rights and privileges they should all be entitle to. Also, it sets the jurisdiction power of the states. If a person commits a crime in a particular state and travels to another it gives the right to the state to take custody. That state is required to transfer that person to the state that needs it.

Also, this section talks about slavery. It sets laws for fugitive slaves. If a fugitive slave goes to a different state the slave should be returned by the new state. This part of the article has no value since it was amended.


The article I chose from Politico is Obama massages negotiation messaging. This article caugh my attention because of the whole controversy with the government shut down. I agree with Obama's approach because he is trying his best to stop the shut down without acepting the preasure the Republicans are putting on him and America. "But eight days into a government shutdown, with the debt ceiling in danger of being breached as early as Oct. 17, Obama has changed his tenor and tone to avoid taking blame for Washington’s meltdown." This quote I feel summarizes the whole idea of the article. President Obama and his administration do not want to take the blame for the bad decisions and the preassure the Republicans are putting on them. I feel this shutdown is a bad strategy that politiciands are using without thinking in the hardworking people that is affraid of a new recession.