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ARTICLE IV SECTION 4 CONSTITUTION SEPTEMBER 17, 1787: 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.
Filed Under Articles of Confederation, CONSTITUTION, Declaration of Independence, LEARNING THE LAW, Northwest Ordinance, ORGANIC LAWS, Territorial Jurisdiction
My Students in my Basic Course in Law and Government learn constitutional law the only way it should be learned¾directly from the Organic Law of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 and the Constitution of September 17, 1787.
What States are guaranteed a republican form of government? The guarantee is a disguised command. The Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787, which required the States of the Northwest Territory: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota to form temporary governments, which “shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles,” set a minimum standard for the States of “this Union,” meaning the States, whose territory was comprised of territory owned by and ceded to the United States of America.
The Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 made the Northwest Territory a part of the Confederacy, the United States of America formed by the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777. That incorporation did not make the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota States of “the Union,” meaning the first and perpetual Union, the United States of America. What the Northwest Ordinance did was temporary, for only a few weeks. The Constitution of September 17, 1787 made “this Union” permanent by setting aside the federal territory within the state of the perpetual Union where territorial jurisdiction could attach.
What United States guarantees “every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government?” The Confederacy known as the United States of America can only guarantee the States in the territory owned by and ceded to the United States of America. Article II of the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777 leaves every member State with all it retained. Article II: “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”
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Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera
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