The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states.4which principle did this excerpt establish?

This principle, established in the Articles of Confederation, revolves around citizens having the same rights regardless of the state they are in. This article was put in as a means to bring unity to the previously independent 13 colonies. This cohesion would allow citizens to receive fair treatment regardless of what state they were in at the time. This idea is used in the US Constitution we currently have today.