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

Yeah, that's exactly right, and that's why we have a constitutional amendments.

是的，那非常正确，正是因此我们有宪法修正案。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It's one of the fundamental rights. It's usually a constitutional right,

生命的权利是最基本的人权之一，也是宪法中规定的权利。

对于安乐死的看法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

We are not in a country that mandates theology in terms of its constitutional law or its governance, you never gonna have the institutionalization of 5 daily prayers and things like that, people would be penalized.

我们所在的国家并没有将宗教,写进宪法或者法律法规里，你永远不会将每天五次祷告之类的事情,形成制度规范，这对人们不公。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

VOA: special.2011.03.17

Over the long run, Great Britain remains a constitutional monarchy even in the nineteenth century, when Victoria had great prestige, she did not have great power.

长久以来,英国保持着君主立宪制,即使到了十九世纪,当维多利亚女王获得无上荣耀的时候,她并没有获得太多权利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Their distinctive customs manners laws habits moral dispositions and sentiments and Aristotle's constitutional theorizing begins by asking a simple question.

意即他们特有的习惯，风俗，法律，习性,道德意向及社群观感,而亚里士多德的本质理论化过程,是透过提问一个简单的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

He will have to do the recruiting of people that come with him on the colony; he will have to do the constitutional discussion and a political discussion to gain the sanction from the mother city to allow him to do everything he knows.

他需要招募很多人手,来帮助他去建立殖民地,他的提案必须通过立宪讨论和政治会议,这样母邦才能许可,他才能建立殖民地

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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