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

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The trial found high school teacher John Scopes guilty of violating a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

In nineteen twenty-five, a young science teacher in the southern state of Tennessee challenged the state's new teaching law.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

He says this means establishing the rule of law, rejecting the idea of a police state and supporting the separation of power.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Later she helped gain passage of the first law against domestic violence in the state of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

In the American state of Massachusetts, some teenagers who break the law are sentenced -- to Shakespeare.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

In California,though, a new state law reduces the offense for possessing a small amount of marijuana.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

In eighteen ninety-three, under a state law, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary became a college.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

The State of Law coalition of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took an early lead.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

But a new state law in Arizona will make it a crime.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

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

VOA: special.2010.03.02

and Barak,a former general and army chief of staff, says Israel is a state of law and lawbreakers will be punished.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Together we must promote and defend the integrity of our state institutions including the judiciary and law enforcement agencies,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

"Piling on additional obligations would mean even more severe cuts to roads,schools, law enforcement and other essential state services."

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

A big change came four years ago, when Russia's new forestry law essentially privatized management of state forests.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Since the federal law was passed a decade ago, many state and local communities have followed suit.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18