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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Ah, article 4.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiv
"Section 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."
There it is.
The United States can intervene to act against domestic violence. I take that to mean that in the event of violence perpetrated, allowed or deliberately overlooked by a corrupt state government, as in the case in 1961 Alabama, the Feds can intervene.
JFK was in the right and all of these asshats who have been crying about it ever since don't know what they are talking about, as usual.
Excellent.
Dave |
I didn't mention this one, because we were positing a corrupt or rebelling state government. This clause requires a request from the state (that's the application from the legislature or the executive part), and such a government wouldn't give you one.
But the guarantee at the beginning of that section is not so qualified. If state government is not up to snuff, the Feds can come in and fix.
(Don't know why I mentioned Article 7 before, my bad.)