[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 64 (Wednesday, May 11, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H3219]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

            By Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California:
        H.R. 1835.
        Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       U.S. Constitution--Article 4 Section 4
       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.