Now the court says the restriction on political speech violates free speech rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

He said they were acting for the "equality that they are guaranteed by the Constitution."

VOA: special.2010.01.29

In the United States, free speech is protected by the Constitution.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Failure to hold the vote by the end of January, a deadline set by the constitution, threatened the creation of a political void.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Mr.Mogae had served 10 years as head-of-state, the maximum allowed by the constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The country's Supreme Constitutional Court says he will not be inaugurated and will not be called president of the republic because he was not chosen through a democratic election as required by the constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

The 34-year-old Rajoelina, who is six years younger than the minimum age required by the constitution to be president, earlier announced he was forming an interim government that would revise the constitution and hold elections within two years.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

What really transformed the United States was the process by which four million slaves were freed that necessitated a recrafting of our Constitution."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

For example, the United States Constitution gives the president power to veto bills passed by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Congress,instead,let the people of Kansas vote on the statehood constitution written by pro-slavery men.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

He said, "The election of a man to the presidency by the American people, under the Constitution, is no reason for any attempt to dissolve this glorious nation."

VOA: special.2009.07.09

But the United States Constitution guarantees the right to trial by jury.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

They voted and rejected the constitution by a large majority.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

"The Constitution of Ghana says that the management of stool lands shall be done by the owners of the land.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Parliament's tenure was extended by a year after it missed the May 2010 deadline for writing the constitution.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"The key demand is that we consider that the crisis has been prompted by the fact that the constitution has been violated.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The proposed treaty, which replaces plans for an E.U.constitution, is opposed by the Czech Republic's President Vaclav Klaus.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

But the continuing political impasse has raised worries whether the constitution can be framed by next year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The draft constitution laid claim to oil and gas rights that are contested by the central government.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

They argue that Zelaya violated the Honduran constitution by planningto hold an illegal referendum that was aimed at continuing his time in office indefinitely.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

He said he is required by the Palestinian constitution to hold elections in January.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

"The Fijian regime led by Commodore Bainimarama has conducted a military coup, he has violated the constitution, he has refused to hold elections and he's suspended the judiciary,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04