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It just says that they can make the ground rules, but the rules could change depending on what state you're talking about.

Right.

Well, it just could be like the I mean, in the case of Puerto Rico, it's like there's lots of complicated things there.

And there's sort of like a class of foreign and domestic sense that that Puerto Rico has.

And and a lot of that has to do with just like.

Where you are politically at this moment, does it seem like it's going to favor one political party or another?

And that sort of seems to be the source of it, at least in the United States.

That is interesting because it's also that's somewhat antithetical to our notion of ourselves is that we weren't especially expansionist or at least a lot colonialist.

That's how we viewed ourselves, even though it was never really part of the true function of the United States.

But I think that's super interesting.

More on Article 4 and our discussion of the Tenth Amendment after the break.

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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.

But presumably what it's there for is to say the United States shouldn't admit new states that have totalitarian or authoritative governments, right?

So why did Texas think it could do this?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wish we had some definitions of invasion because it's used so much and it's also invoked so much in political arguments.

I think quite knowingly because it's it's invoked a lot as the thing that causes an emergency to happen in an invasion of some kind.

It causes something to change.