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The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic
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At the time of the founding, however, states restricted the right to vote based on race, sex, and property ownership. Madison suggested that these existing practices in the states, which he called "existing republican forms", may be continued.
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wrote in Federalist No. 43 that "should a popular insurrection happen in one of the States, the others are able to quell it. Should abuses creep into one part, they are reformed by those that remain sound."
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It is understood that the Guarantee Clause requires states to produce governments by electoral processes, as opposed to inherited monarchies, dictatorships, or military rule.
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Beginning in the aftermath of the Civil War, subsequent amendments broadened the right to vote and restricted discriminatory state laws. These include the
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The Guarantee Clause reflects a founding understanding of republicanism, which entails governing through electoral processes. As written in the
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that "States may choose to substitute other republican forms, they have a right to do so, and to claim the federal guaranty for the latter."
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Congress disestablished ten state governments during peacetime and placed them under military rule. The law, known as the
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held the Guarantee Clause to be a political question to be resolved by Congress. Relying on that understanding, the
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The Central Meaning of Republican Government: Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, and the Denominator Problem
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The original substance of the clause was first proposed at the Constitutional Convention as part of the
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attempted to adopt a constitution by convention but was quashed by the existing charter government. In
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of the Constitution explicitly gave the states power to decide voting qualifications, although
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Waking the Giant: A Role for the Guarantee Clause Exclusion Power in the Twenty-First Century
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gives Congress authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections.
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Scholars have commented that these decisions are consistent with the statement in
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Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon
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Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Co. v. Oregon
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Index

Republican Guarantee Clause
Article IV
Section 4
United States Constitution
Virginia Plan
Edmund Randolph
Federalist No. 57
Montesquieu
James Madison
Article I, Section 2
Article I, Section 4
Fifteenth
Nineteenth
Twenty-Fourth
Twenty-Sixth
Luther v. Borden
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Co. v. Oregon
nonjusticiable
political question
constitution
1663 royal charter
King
Charles II
rival government
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon
referendums
direct democracy
representative democracy
Federalist No. 43
Colegrove v. Green

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