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The Domestic Violence Clause
in Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution:
"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."
The U.S. Supreme Court said it's the people of the states
who are guaranteed this protection (Texas v. White, 1868).
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