to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and
shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on the
application of the legislature, or the executive (when the
legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence."

And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, that any
provision which may be adopted by such State government in
relation to the freed people of such State, which shall recognize
and declare their permanent freedom, provide for their education,
and which may yet be consistent as a temporary arrangement with
their present condition as a laboring, landless, and homeless
class, will not be objected to by the National Executive.

And it is suggested as not improper that, in constructing a loyal
State government in any State, the name of the State, the
boundary, the subdivisions, the constitution, and the general
code of laws, as before the rebellion, be maintained, subject
only to the modifications made necessary by the conditions
hereinbefore stated, and such others, if any, not contravening
said conditions, and which may be deemed expedient by those
framing the new State government.

To avoid misunderstanding, it may be proper to say, that whether
members sent to Congress from any State shall be admitted to
seats, constitutionally rests exclusively with the respective
houses, and not to any extent with the Executive. And still
further, that this proclamation is intended to present to the
people of the States wherein the National authority has been
suspended; and loyal State governments have been subverted, a
mode in and by which the National authority and loyal State