What guarantees do states receive from the federal government?

Question

What guarantees do states receive from the federal government?

Answer 1

The Federal government comes with no guarantees, full, limited, expressed or otherwise.

The Constitution, however, guarantees the states a republican form of government, protection against invasion and if requested by state authorities, help in putting down any insurrection within a state.

Also guarantees that no new states can be formed from within the boundaries of an existing state(s) without the (those) state's legislative approval.

Also, guarantees states extradition rights to bring criminals back to their jurisdiction.

Also, that information regarding each state's acts, records and judicial proceedings are made available to every other state. (So the political scientists and practitioners of politics in any of the 50 political “laboratories” will know how experiments are going, as in successes and failures)

All found in Article IV.

Answer 2

Crunch---has answered the question---although the points he mentioned are not carried thru-----the federal government has encroached on the power of the States and the 10th amendment by assuming powers that the states have not exercised----also West Virginia was formed out of Virginia during the civil war in violation of express words written in the Constitution----and then W. Va. was allowed to vote to ratify the 14th Amendment---which may have never been ratified without W.Va. vote----you have to believe this was a Constitutional  no no.