No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Here's another favorite:
Article 3, Section 4:
Section 4
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.
Definition (from the on-disk dictionary of my copy of MAC O/S)
republic | rəˈpəblik |
noun
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
NOTE: VOTE FRAUD prevents the PEOPLE from exercising their choice for their elected officials, meaning that in California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington state, and other places where vote fraud is rampant, we don't actually HAVE republican forms of government. Vote fraud is therefore a FEDERAL matter. Oddly, is isn't really being framed in that way in most discussions.
Hear-hear! Those facts and that line in the Constitution need to become common knowledge.
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text
Article 1, Section 10 (first paragraph of three):
Section 10: Powers Denied to the States
Here's another favorite:
Article 3, Section 4:
Section 4
Definition (from the on-disk dictionary of my copy of MAC O/S)
NOTE: VOTE FRAUD prevents the PEOPLE from exercising their choice for their elected officials, meaning that in California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington state, and other places where vote fraud is rampant, we don't actually HAVE republican forms of government. Vote fraud is therefore a FEDERAL matter. Oddly, is isn't really being framed in that way in most discussions.