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Article Four of the United States Constitution

Later, Chief Justice John Marshall suggested that the judgment of one state court must be recognized by other states' courts as final.

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A republican form of government is distinguished from a pure democracy, which the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid; as James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 10, "Hence it is that such pure democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

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