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Record group: Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006 (National Archives Identifier: 340) Series: The Constitution of the United States, compiled 09/17/1787 - 09/17/1787 (National Archives Identifier: 595951) MLR Number A-1 1; Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
The Guarantee Clause, also known as the Republican Form of Government Clause, is in Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution. It requires the United States to guarantee every state a republican form of government and provide protection from foreign invasion and domestic violence.
Article Four of the United States Constitution outlines the relationship between the various states, as well as the relationship between each state and the United States federal government. It also empowers Congress to admit new states and administer the territories and other federal lands .
Record group: Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006 (National Archives Identifier: 340) Series: The Constitution of the United States, compiled 09/17/1787 - 09/17/1787 (National Archives Identifier: 595951) MLR Number A-1 1; Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law. When a particular clause becomes an important ...
In 1790, shortly after the Constitution had been ratified, Congress took action under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, enacting that "the records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every Court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the Courts of the state ...
Reading of the United States Constitution of 1787. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the federal government.
While the Framers of our Constitution omitted the reference to "free ingress and regress," they retained the general guaranty of "privileges and immunities." Charles Pinckney, who drafted the current version of Art. IV, told the Convention that this Article was "formed exactly upon the principles of the 4th article of the present Confederation."