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

So these questions are not gonna come to people like me to the decide the Constitutional matters The Attorney General's gonna be involved, the White House Council is gonna be involved, etc.

因此这些问题不会交由像我这样的人处理,来决定这些宪法之类的问题,首席检察官将会参与其中，白宫委员会等等都会参与到其中。

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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

The new governor promised to enforce the laws of the pro-slavery legislature -- but only those laws which were constitutional.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The example, and the ideas it produced, encouraged and informed the French and the American revolutions, and the entire modern constitutional tradition.

这次革命和它的理念,促成了,法国和美国的大革命,并使现代宪法制度得以发展

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

VOA: special.2011.03.17

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。

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The railroads said the laws were not constitutional, because they interfered with the right of Congress to control trade between the states.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

His study of the regime that is to say the underlying constitutional principles that govern each order is what distinguishes Aristotle from the other social scientists.

他对政体的研究,也就是说,潜在且管理,每一种规范的宪法原则,即是让亚里士多德不同于,其它社会科学家的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It did say,however, that any state wishing to return to the Union could do so without losing any of its constitutional rights.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

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。

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

VOA: special.2009.03.05

You can specialize in constitutional law,

你可以专攻宪法，

哈佛法学院的课程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

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

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She is remembered still for her commanding presentation at the hearing and deep knowledge of constitutional issues.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

From the ensuing rebellion came limited constitutional representative government and ultimately our modern form of democracy.

从接踵而来的反抗运动到,受限制的代议制宪政政府,最终到我们现代的民主社会

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Scott's owner raised the questions: Did Congress have the Constitutional power to close a territory to slavery?

VOA: special.2009.05.14

But in any case the Aristotelian statesman's goal will be restoration of the conditions of constitutional government and rule of law as quickly and again as efficiently as possible.

但无论如何,亚里士多德式政治家的目标,将是要尽快及有效地恢复,宪法政府与法治的条件,随着这个坚强不屈的批注。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Southern states declared that they had a constitutional right to bring slaves into the new lands.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

They provide the constitutional framework within which we later figures operate.

他们提供宪法架构,供我们在日后依据探讨与运作。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Also,there is constitutional protection against double jeopardy being put on trial twice for the same crime.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

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

In the South,many people felt that the constitutional equality of fifteen southern states was being questioned.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

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

Justice Taney said Congress did not have the constitutional power to pass such a law.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

This seems in many ways to be quite far from the American democracy based on constitutional government, systems of checks and balances, protection of individual rights, and so on.

这似乎在很多方面,有别于美式民主,后者的根基是宪制政府，制衡体系，保障个人权利等。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Southern states believed they had a constitutional right to take property including slaves -- anywhere.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

But when they apply for federal funds for social programs, we expect them to run their programs according to the Constitutional principle.

担当它们申请获得联邦基金施行其社会项目时，我们期望它们根据,宪法的原则推行那些项目。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

When a community seeks federal funds for separate programs like After-school Programs, Sports Programs, homely shelters, those federal funds should be used in accordance with Constitutional principles and federal law.

当一个团体寻求为其各个项目获得联邦基金时,比如课后项目，体育项目，家庭庇护所，那些联邦基金的使用应该符合,宪法的原则和联邦法律。

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