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Re:Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order t... by cryptonector on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:24PM (#23186296)
> To me, the additional clause you showed just says that the federal government shall protect the states against invasions.

What?! How do you see that? The ", and" below is a conjunction, it's joining one commitment and another into a list of commitments made to the States:

| The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; ...

That clearly does not predicate one commitment upon the other. It's just a list of commitments.

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Re:Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order t... by aw1621107 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:27PM (#23188193)
> What?! How do you see that?

The key word in my comment is "additional", which was intended to indicate that I was replying to "and shall protect each of them against Invasion".

I have to admit it's also partially my fault since I didn't notice at the time that you are not the same person who made the original comment I replied to, so I left out some context.

Otherwise I agree that it is just a list of commitments.

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