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

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He reported that California leaders had written a state constitution.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

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

Senator Webb also met with Prime Minister Thien Sein, Foreign Minister Nyan Win, the chairman of the State Constitution Drafting Commission Aung Toe and representatives from political parties, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy and state-affiliated social organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

In the trial, two same-sex couples argue that the state ban violates equal protection rights under the United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

And it said each southern state must approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that gave citizenship to blacks.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In exchange for this, Sherman said the president would recognize state governments in the south which promised to support the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Little Delaware is called the First State because it was the first state the first to approve the new United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

America's constitution says federal troops cannot be sent to a state unless the state government asks for them.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

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

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Later cases ruled that teaching religious creation stories in public schools violates the First Amendment of the Constitution that calls for separation of church and state.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Buchanan declared that the constitution gave no state the right to leave.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The high court ruling says the right to have a handgun for self defense is a fundamental right under the Second Amendment to the U.S.Constitution and applies to state and local jurisdictions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06