The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-08-30


shall guarantee to every State in this
Union a republican form of govern
ment.1 The Supreme Court in inter-
preting this clause refers to the States I
that participated in framing the Con-
stltutiOn as illustrations and examples /
OF republican governments. All
agreeing essentially in the source of
authority. frame and powers of gov
ernment, but varying in their munich
pal laws, and especially in their regu-
lation of the franchise. In the nature
of things Congress cannot make
Constitution for State. Each State
must perform that act Of sovereignty
for itself New States may be admit
ted by the Congress into this Union,s
clause of Section 8, Article 4. But be-
fore the act of admission takes place
the States Constitution is submitted to
Congress that it may be determined
whether the government Is republican.
In Minors case, reported 2l Wallace,
175, discussing the guaranty clause,
the Chief Justice used the emphatic
language: "The guaranty necessarily
implies duty on the part of the
States to provide such a government
republican in form, and that, inas-
much as there was no definition of
such government in the Constitution,
the Chief Justice said in effect that re-
sort must be had to the sort of gov
eruments which the States had when
the Constitution was adopted to in
terpret the meaning of the guaranty"
In restoring the State 10 full fellow
ship in the Union the Congress passed
on two questions: First, that the
State was invested with tepuhlican
government, and that she should be
restored to representation in Congress ;
that replaced the broken link in her
Federal relations aud placed her on a
plane of absolute equality with the
other States in the Union. There can
hardly be conception of unequal
in the scope OF thoir law making,
executive and judicial powers. 1t
would not be contended that the Fed
eral Government could impose limita-
tons on the political sovereignty OF
all all or that n could alter or CHANCE a
clause ala or section in n Constitution
NV ~ State cls;m,nv admission or re-
storst;on ~ 20 tho Union In Witbers
,s s'' pnct,or - ranovtad IN % How Q n
Z 10 Mississ;nni casol ne subject for
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