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."

Learn about this provision America's Founders bequeathed us:

DomesticViolenceClause.org

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