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Date Submitted: 04/16/2004 15:47:46
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 1 pages (364 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 1 pages (364 words)
Guarantee of Republican for of Government
The Constitution places several obligations on the National Government for the benefit of the States. Most of them are to be found in Article Four.
The Constitution requires the National Government to “guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government” (Article four). The Constitution does not define “republican form of government,” and the Supreme Court has regularly refused to do so. The term generally understood
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form”(Pollard). It refused to admit Senators and Representatives from those States until the States had ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and broadened their laws to recognize the voting and other rights of African Americans.
Work Cited
Fox, Richard.” American Federalism”. US. Government.
Plantek and Harris. New York, New York. 1983
Pollard, Scott. “Rights of African Americans” The
Uses of American Government. Green Press . New York
New York. 23-24. 1999
www.TheAmericanGovernment.com
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