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The Guarantee Clause of Article 4 of the Constitution states that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." These two provisions indicate states did not surrender their wide latitude to adopt a constitution, the fundamental documents of state law, when the U.S. Constitution was adopted.
Each state is itself a sovereign entity, and as such, reserves the right to organize in any way (within the above stated parameter) deemed appropriate by its people. As a result, while the governments of the various states share many similar features, they often vary greatly with regard to form and substance. No two state governments are identical.
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U.S. state constitutional amendments (7 C, 74 P) State constitutional officers of the United States (13 C, 3 P) Constitutions of insular areas of the United States (1 C, 3 P)
The United States comprises 50 states: 9 of the Thirteen Colonies that were already part of the United States at the time the Constitution took effect in 1789, 4 that ratified the Constitution after its commencement, plus 37 that have been admitted since by Congress as authorized under Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution.
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2024 State & Legislative Partisan Composition. As of August 2, 2024. National Conference of State Legislatures. [1] STATE Total Seats Total Senate Senate Dem. Senate Rep. Senate other Total House House Dem. House Rep. House other Leg. Control Gov. Party State Control Alabama 140 35 8 27 105 28 76 1v Rep Rep Rep Alaska 60 20 9 11 40 13 22 5 Rep ...
Pennsylvania has had five constitutions during its statehood: [4] 1776, 1790, 1838, 1874, and 1968. Prior to that, the colonial Province of Pennsylvania was governed for a century by a book titled Frame of Government, written by William Penn, of which there were four versions: 1682, 1683, 1696, and 1701. [5]