If all the money from land sales was given to the states, the federal government might not have enough money.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

It said each of the states needed a new constitution that protected the voting rights of all black men.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He vetoed a number of programs that he thought interfered with rights given to the states by the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

President Abraham Lincoln asked the states of the Union for seventy-five thousand soldiers to help end the southern rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

His education law,still in effect, required states to show yearly progress in student learning as measured by the states' own tests.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

He said slavery had not tied the states of the Union together, but had always been an issue that divided them.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

It gave the United States nearly all of what is today the states of California, Nevada,Utah,Arizona,Colorado and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

This must be done to equally divide the four hundred thirty-five voting districts in the House of Representatives among the states.

VOA: special.2010.12.25

People will be able to buy private policies through marketplaces called exchanges to be administered by the states.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

They will serve on two guided-missile and two ballistic-missile subs based in the states of Washington and Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Others say Paul Bunyan and Babe cleared the trees from the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

that by our frame of government, the states which have slavery are to retain it, or surrender it at their own pleasure;

VOA: special.2009.02.09

It said it was illegal for a trust or any other organization to interfere with interstate commerce -- trade among the states.

VOA: special.2010.06.03