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.
1. | Vermont Constitution of 1777, CH. 1, ARTS. 4--8 |
2. | James Madison, Vices of the Political System of the United States, Apr. 1787 |
3. | Records of the Federal Convention |
4. | Tench Coxe, An Examination of the Constitution of the United States of America, Fall 1787 |
5. | William Symmes to Capt. Peter Osgood, Jr., 15 Nov. 1787 |
6. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 21, 130--32, 12 Dec. 1787 |
7. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 43, 291--95, 23 Jan. 1788 |
8. | James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 6 June 1788 |
9. | Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention, 14 June 1788 |
10. | James Wilson, Of Man in Confederation, Lectures on Law, 1791 |
11. | St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 366--67, 1803 |
12. | Johnson v. Duncan |
13. | William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States 295--304, 305--7 1829 (2d ed.) |
14. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1808, 1819, 1833 |
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