War Democrat (constitutionalist) de facto President Andrew Johnson (a Citizen of the confederate State of Tennessee) tells visitors to the Executive Mansion (White House) that Article IV, Section 4—the Guarantee Clause, is the power, by which the president—without the consent of Congress—can,
enable such loyal people of the state of ________ to restore said state to its constitutional relations to the Federal Government and to present such a republican form of government as will entitle the state to the guaranty of the United States therefor [sic].
[added 4/22/2022]
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References:
William M. Weicek, The Guarantee Clause of the U.S. Constitution, (Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1972), 189.
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