She won a four-year college scholarship, the top prize nationally in a public speaking contest on the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

So the people of Kansas got another chance to show that they did not want a pro-slavery constitution.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

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

VOA: special.2009.03.13

He would ask Congress to accept the pro-slavery Kansas constitution and make the territory a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The words of the oath are in the Constitution - all except "so help me God."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

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

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Fifty-two percent of California voters amended the state constitution in November of two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

And finally, in seventeen eighty-seven, one of the declared reasons for establishing the Constitution of the United States was to form 'a more perfect Union'.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

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

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Bunau-Varilla and Cromwell provided Manuel Amador with a declaration of independence, a constitution,and money.

VOA: special.2010.08.19

"but the rights of the South -- under our constitution -- should have as much protection as the rights of any other part of our Union."

VOA: special.2009.05.07

He said the people of California already had approved an anti-slavery state constitution.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

But he lost that battle. Virginia approved the Constitution in seventeen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The resolution said simply that the people of South Carolina were ending the agreement of seventeen eighty-eight in which the state had approved the Constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The pro-slavery statehood constitution was dead.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Burmese authorities have already re-worked the constitution to ensure the military remains in power regardless of the 2010 elections.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

Coup supporters said the left-leaning Mr.Zelaya sought to violate the country's constitution, and that interim President Roberto Micheletti was legally installed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

And those territories are substantial. The constitution set aside up to one-eighth of the country for indigenous peoples.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Niger's electoral commission says more than 92 percent of voters approved changes to the constitution allowing President Mamadou Tandja to run for re-election.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

"We'll just keep re-electing, re-electing and re-electing until we get people in there who understand what the constitution means to all of us."

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Under the current constitution, the 35-year old Mr.Rajoelina is too young to run for president.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The infighting among the main parties has held up the main task with which parliament was entrusted - the writing of a new constitution for the country.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The party's constitution bans non-whites from being members.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23