Republican (nationalist) de facto Representative Samuel Shellabarger, of the federal enclave of Ohio, makes his case for Congressional (radical) Reconstruction, on the floor of the House of Representatives, arguing that while the confederate States still exist, their governments do not; and that it is responsibility of Congress to “guarantee them a republican form of government” by imposing it upon them militarily.
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Authority:
Article I, Section 6 [Clause 1]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
William M. Weicek, The Guarantee Clause of the U.S. Constitution, (Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1972), 196.
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