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

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The word "property" is really important to connect the concept of property with something fundamental in the make-up, in the constitution.

特性这个词真的很重要,将特性的概念和,组成和构造里主要的部分联系起来。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Aristotle understands the mixed constitution as a balance of classes--the one the few and the many.

不同于我们的宪法,亚里士多德了解混合宪法是阶级的平衡,即一人，少数人及多数人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.05.21

In 1875 there's an amendment to the Constitution that essentially- voted by one vote,or approved by one vote, by the Assembly--that essentially transforms France into a Republic.

875年有个宪法修正案,本质上--,它在一次议会投票表决中,得到了支持--本质上把法国变成了共和国

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Thomas R. Dew, a very important pro-slavery writer, who wrote a whole book in the wake of the state of Virginia's debates in 1831 and '32 over whether to re-write its Constitution.

托马斯·德夫,一个非常重要的亲奴主义作家,曾在弗吉尼亚州于1831和32年开展的,关于是否重写其宪法的辩论之后,撰写过一本书

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.05.21

And that's why I would've voted against the Constitution, I encouraged people to vote against the Constitution, and I know almost nobody, except professors in Paris and Lyon, who are for that Constitution that was defeated a year ago May twenty-ninth-- so,there.

这就是我为什么投票反对欧盟宪法条约,我鼓励人们投反对票,我知道除了那些巴黎和里昂的学究们,几乎没人支持,欧盟宪法条约,而他们在一年前的五月二十九日落败,就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.01.19

But as the foreign slave trade was closed off, for a whole variety of reasons, only one of which was that there was this passage, sort of a vow, in the original Constitution that the question would be re-visited in 20 years, and 1808 was 20 years.

但随着海外奴隶交易,基于多种原因被封闭之后,这段只提到其中一个原因,是由于最初的宪法契约,这个问题要追溯到二十年前,内战开始前20年即1808年

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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