The president said he expected the Senate to quickly make a last set of legislative fixes needed in the new law.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

The law forced every worker and business owner to pay a small amount of money each month to the federal government.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

Secretary Gates said he has launched a year-long study of the possible effects of a change in the law.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The Senate must also act. The president wants to sign a bill into law by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

The law said a man who was drafted could stay out of the army by doing one of two things.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

However,the national social security law established a system that would grow and become a central part of American life.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

If a corporation is legally a person, then states cannot limit corporate rights without due process of law either.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Douglas Laycock is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

This evidence can be used by investigators who are working to solve the crime and as proof in a court of law.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

He says this means establishing the rule of law, rejecting the idea of a police state and supporting the separation of power.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

It was the first time that a government had approved a law to preserve and protect land because of its great beauty.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

It was a matter of law. The law was contained in article four of the national constitution.

VOA: special.2009.04.02