[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 152 (Wednesday, October 12, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6854]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. JONES:
       H.R. 3168.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       The constitutional authority of Congress to enact this 
     legislation is provided by Article 4, section 4 of the United 
     States Constitution:
       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.