Bank offices would be permitted in any state where the state legislature did not immediately refuse permission.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Its jobless rate was almost thirteen percent in March,the highest of any state.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

If any state decided to leave the Union, he said,South Carolina would follow.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

But California also has the lowest credit rating of any state.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

It provides that no state may "deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law ."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

After the end of the Bank of the United States, there was little control of any kind over the state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

If any boat carrying troops refused to stop, the state soldiers were to sink it and seize the fort.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Local party leaders did not. As one said: "I do not want him raising hell in my state any longer."

VOA: special.2010.08.05

This started a gold rush unlike any other in American history in the Golden State.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

The Beehive State of Utah has no more beehives than any other state.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

North Dakota grows more hectares of sunflowers than any other American state.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

International law bars any nation or state from claiming lunar surfaces.

VOA: special.2010.03.02