[WhiskeyPapa]

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

So while in the Union, they're guaranteed a republican form of government.

That is not what is says.

Walt

[H.Akston]

The Constitution says that a state in this Union, (not necessarily one in the CSA, though - which is fine, don't get me wrong) is guaranteed by the US to have a Republican form of Government.

That's why each state still has a Legislature of representatives, et.al. who are elected by the people - at least since Reconstruction was over and after all the State Constitutions had been modified in accordance with the Consent of the Yankees...

[H.Akston]

While in the Union, the States are guaranteed by the US, to have a republican form of Government.

Only a strict reconstructionist could deny that.