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1 Brooks vs. Baxter. Argument in Favor of Joseph Brooks 1872

handle is hein.trials/achb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BROOKS VS. BAXTER. IN FAVOR OF JOSEPH BR OOKS To Honorable GEORGE I. WILLIAMS, Attorney General, Department of Justice: SIR: The Constitution of the United States, article 4, section 4, declares: The United States shall guarantee to every State in the 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 Legisla- ture can not be convened,) against domestic violence. The Government of the United States is thus obligated to the performance of certain duties: first, to guarantee to every State a republican form of government, and here the word State plainly means the people of the State, whom the United States must make secure against any form of government not adopted by the free choice of the people expressed by free suffrage, which embodies our American notion of a republican form. With this assur- ance to the people of the State the question is now only indirectly concerned. The further obligation of the United States is, in addi- tion to protecting each State, i. e., the people of each State, against invasion, to protect them against domestic vio- lence. The obligation to protect the people of a State against

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