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.       Article 4 Section 4 constitution for the US of A We were made to be a republic so that the majority could not simply destroy the individual's rights, freedoms and liberty.  In a true republic, Individual rights are above government and men and woman are afforded adjudication in the course of the common law.