It must agree to an amendment to the constitution that would return political balance to North and South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Seventy-two years later the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Then,in nineteen seventy-one, the twenty-sixth amendment to the Constitution set the voting age at eighteen.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

She worked tirelessly to get Congress and the states to approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that would provide equal rights for women.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees free speech and a free press.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

That came with passage of the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Ten U.S.states have enacted Iran divestment legislation, and an amendment to the House bill would retroactively expand protection to those actions.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Thornton says the new amendment to the Lacey Act is a wake-up call for anyone who wants to trade in the lucrative U.S.wood products market.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

At a news conference Tuesday, a group of senators introduced an amendment to the Senate war funding bill that would bar the release of Guantanamo detainees on to U.S.soil.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

The court is also scheduled to consider whether a law that prohibits pictures of animal cruelty constitutes a violation of free speech under the 1st Amendment to the U.S.Constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Last year, the court ruled the 2nd amendment to the U.S.Constitution's protects the right of an individual citizen to own a handgun in the District of Columbia, a federally governed enclave.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The high court ruling says the right to have a handgun for self defense is a fundamental right under the Second Amendment to the U.S.Constitution and applies to state and local jurisdictions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Saying she fully supports President Obama's diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, Lowey supported an amendment to close a loophole in U.S.law regarding sanctions targeting Iran's energy sector.

VOA: standard.2009.06.23

Kyl was speaking in support of an amendment to the $91.3-billion Senate version of the 2009 Iraq-Afghanistan war supplemental bill, aimed at preventing U.S.government funds from going to companies involved in selling refined petroleum products to Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

He said the amendment should recognize the right to own slaves as property in states where slavery was permitted.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

After the Civil War in the eighteen sixties, the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

This amendment,and the Volstead Act, made it unlawful to make,sell or transport liquor.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

How the First Amendment applies to life in America has often been disputed.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Thirty-eight of the fifty state legislatures were required to approve the amendment.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

"They found an amendment or a post-script or something to the will.

VOA: special.2011.08.13

The amendment makes it a crime for anyone to deploy peer-to-peer technology that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted material online.

VOA: standard.2009.04.23

Speaking for the amendment, Republican Mark Kirk referred to the killing of Neda Agha Soltan and post-election events.

VOA: standard.2009.06.23