The United States are bound by the Constitution to “guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government.” Being called to perform this guaranty, you are asked to recognize an oligarchy of the skin, and on this very question the Senate is now called to vote.
Sumner asserts that the U.S. Constitution mandates a republican form of government for every state, challenging the legitimacy of an oligarchy in Louisiana.
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