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Cite as:  576 U. S. ____ (2015) 

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ROBERTS, C. J., dissenting 
Appendix to opinion of ROBERTS, C. J. 

Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and 
the  Acceptance  of  Congress,  become  the  Seat  of  the  Gov-
ernment of the United States, and to exercise like Author- 
ity over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legisla-
ture of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erec-
tion of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other 
needful Buildings . . . .” 

Art. II, §1, cl. 2: “Each State shall appoint, in such Man-
ner  as  the  Legislature  thereof  may  direct,  a  Number  of
Electors,  equal  to  the  whole  Number  of  Senators  and
Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the
Congress:  but  no  Senator  or  Representative,  or  Person 
holding  an  Office  of  Trust  or  Profit  under  the  United
States, shall be appointed an Elector.” 

Art.  IV,  §3,  cl.  1:  “New  States  may  be  admitted  by  the
Congress  into  this  Union;  but  no  new  State  shall  be
formed  or  erected  within  the  Jurisdiction  of  any  other 
State;  nor  any  State  be  formed  by  the  Junction  of  two  or 
more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the 
Legislatures  of  the  States  concerned  as  well  as  of  the 
Congress.” 

Art.  IV,  §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.” 

Art. V: “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses
shall  deem  it  necessary,  shall  propose  Amendments  to
this  Constitution,  or,  on  the  Application  of  the  Legisla-
tures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Con-
vention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case,