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casefields on Aug 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive ac...

Even more Article 4, Section 4 of the constitution:

>The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/inte...

barrkel on Aug 1, 2020 [–]

This was probably more necessary when "democracy" usually referred to Athenian democracy, which obviously doesn't scale much beyond a city state.

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