{{cquote|See Kerr v. Hickenlooper, 759 F.3d 1186, 1195 & n.2 (10th Cir. 2014) (Gorsuch, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc) ("[M]uch of [the scholarship] suggests that the Clause may rule out a state monarchy, a smaller amount . . . suggests the Clause may rule out a complete direct democracy, but none . . . credibly suggests a limited dose of direct democracy of the sort at issue here is constitutionally problematic." (citing Robert Natelson, A Republic, Not a Democracy? Initiative, Referendum, and the Constitution's Guarantee Clause, 80 Tex. L. Rev. 807, 811 n.19 (2002)); G. Edward White, Reading the Guarantee Clause, 65 U. Colo. L. Rev. 787, 803-06 (1994); Akhil Reed Amar, The Central Meaning of Republican Government: Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, and the Denominator Problem, 65 U. Colo. L. Rev. 749, 749-52, 761-73 (1994); Jonathan Toren, Protecting Republican Government from Itself: The Guarantee Clause of Article IV, Section 4, 2 N.Y.U. J.L. & Liberty 371, 374-92, 392-99 (2007))).}}
Kerr v. Polis, 20 F.4th 686, 710 n.5 (10th Cir. 2021)( TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge, concurring).
== See also ==*[https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/4/essays/128/guarantee-clause Heritage Guide]
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