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The '''Guarantee Clause''' of the [[U.S. Constitution]] ensures certain protections to each and every state:
The '''Guarantee Clause''' of the [[U.S. Constitution]] ensures certain protections to each and every state:
: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 violence.
: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 violence.
Article IV, Section 4.
U.S. Const. Article IV, Section 4 (emphasis added).
It has been suggested that the Founders wanted state governments to be parliamentary republics rather than democracies, but others have suggested that this clause was intended to protect not against pure democracies but against monarchies.
It has been suggested that the Founders wanted state governments to be parliamentary republics rather than democracies, but others have suggested that this clause was intended to protect not against pure democracies but against monarchies.