Republican government clause
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- A constitutional clause serving as a basis for voting rights and legislative apportionment, permitting some inequality of district size in interpretation but requiring limits in implementation.
- A constitutional clause reinterpreted during Reconstruction to hold states to the highest standards of democratic accountability and federal rights protection.