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The Magna Carta Turns 800, John Hockenberry, Thomas J. Mcsweeney
The Magna Carta Turns 800, John Hockenberry, Thomas J. Mcsweeney
Thomas J. McSweeney
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The "Guarantee" Clause, Ryan C. Williams
The "Guarantee" Clause, Ryan C. Williams
Ryan Williams
Article IV’s command that “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government” stands as one of the few remaining lacunae in the judicially enforced Constitution. For well over a century, federal courts have viewed the provision — traditionally known as the Guarantee Clause but now referred to by some as the “Republican Form of Government” Clause — as a paradigmatic example of a nonjusticiable political question. In recent years, however, both the Supreme Court and lower federal courts have signaled a new willingness to reconsider this much-criticized jurisdictional barrier in an appropriate …