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Legal scholars, including Prof. Erin Hawley (the wife of Sen. [[Josh Hawley]] (R-MO)), observed that "More recently, however, the Supreme Court has left the door open to a Guarantee Clause challenge, intimating that the justiciability of such a claim must be decided on a case-by-case basis."<ref>https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-iv/clauses/42#:~:text=The%20Guarantee%20Clause%20requires%20the,consensus%20on%20what%20it%20means.</ref>
Legal scholars, including Prof. Erin Hawley (the wife of Sen. [[Josh Hawley]] (R-MO)), observed that "More recently, however, the Supreme Court has left the door open to a Guarantee Clause challenge, intimating that the justiciability of such a claim must be decided on a case-by-case basis."<ref>https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-iv/clauses/42#:~:text=The%20Guarantee%20Clause%20requires%20the,consensus%20on%20what%20it%20means.</ref>
== History ==
This clause was introduced at the [[Constitutional Convention]] as part of the [[Virginia Plan]], which provided “that a Republican Government & the territory of each State, except in the instance of a voluntary junction of Government & territory, ought to be guaranteed by the [[United States]] to each State.”<ref>Ryan C. Williams, The 'Guarantee' Clause, [https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-132/the-guarantee-clause/ 132 Harv. L. Rev. 602] (Dec. 2018) (quoting James Madison, Notes on the Constitutional Convention (May 29, 1787), in 1 FARRAND’S RECORDS, supra note 118, at 22)</ref>
== Founders ==
== Founders ==
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