...utterly inconsistent with this absolute power of Congress is the claim of the slaveholder. . . . 6. "The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government." How could the General Government be maintained, if in one State suffrage...

...Theoretical Perspectives (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 65-90. 172. Ariz. Const. art. IV, pt. 2, § 1(15). 173. "The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application...

...that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," and that "the United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government." What could be a clearer statement of the right to "abolish every part...

...another part of this constitution. In the fourth section of the fourth article it is provided, that, " the United , States shall guaranty to every state in this Union a republican form of government." Its own existence, as a government of this description, depends on...

...sense of those terms. The Constitution provides, and all the States have accepted the provision, that "the United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of Government." But if a State may lawfully go out of the Union, having done so, it...

...constitutional provisions (94114). They stretch from the plausible but strained, such as the guarantee clause ("The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government . . ."), which was to become such an important part of the federal mechanics...