But Mr.Abhisit,who oversees a 15 month old administration of six coalition parties, has offered a nine month time frame for elections after constitutional amendments have been agreed to and a new budget passed.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

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

VOA: special.2011.03.17

In eighteen forty-eight, while James Polk was president, there was a great constitutional debate in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

For those opposed to slavery, the platform rejected the idea that slave owners had a constitutional right to take slaves into new territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Scott's owner raised the questions: Did Congress have the Constitutional power to close a territory to slavery?

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Southern states declared that they had a constitutional right to bring slaves into the new lands.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Justice Taney said Congress did not have the constitutional power to pass such a law.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Southern states believed they had a constitutional right to take property including slaves -- anywhere.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

That was ten years after American women gained a constitutional right to vote.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

And a group called the Constitutional Union Party nominated John Bell.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Southerners believed he would support a constitutional ban on slavery.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Campaign staffers for President Karzai say a second-round election is unavoidable and the only constitutional means to establisha new government.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

Lamamra said the international recognition would likely be withheld until a new government is elected and constitutional order is restored.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The FNDD has opposed the coup since it took place in August, and is demanding a return to democracy and constitutional order.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"It would be a revolution to restore government to its constitutional basis." Gun owners worry that the Democratic administration will target the Second Amendment.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The military then handed power to Mr.Rajoelina. A leading authority on constitutional law, Antananarivo University President Jean-Eric Rakotoarisoa, blames the former president for Madagascar's situation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

But in his conciliatory mood Saturday, Mr.Ravalomanana suggested he would not object to a constitutional change that would allow his arch-rival to seek the presidency.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

While violence has subsided in the past few days, Kyrgyz political parties are urging the country's leaders to cancel a planned vote on constitutional reforms.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The case dates back to the 1990s when Mr.Gul was a senior member of the Islamist Welfare party which was closed by the constitutional court.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

They made it clear to the former Nigerian military ruler that a return to constitutional order is a pre-condition for direct talks with President Mamadou Tandja.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Mauritanian representatives for the U.S. -based National Democratic Institute told reporters in Nouakchott that the group will not monitor the June vote because it is a unilateral decision against constitutional order.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

"You might take this as a general principle, that if you have revolutionary transformations, it's extremely difficult to go back to legal,legitimized, constitutional transfers of power that revolutionary settlements, in fact,are quite dangerous as a precedent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

McCoy says she believes it may be possible to broker a solution to what she regards as a constitutional crisis in Honduras, but she says both pro- and anti-Zelaya factions will need to recognize what brought it about.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03