Until the Hellenistic period, when the power of Thebes was pulled down, Boeotia was united with true federal constitution;

直到希腊化时期，底比斯的强权被彻底摧毁，彼奥提亚地区才在联邦体制下实现统一；

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But on the more important matter of the Constitution, the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration's effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.

但在更重要的宪法问题上，政府试图打破联邦政府和各州之间权力的平衡，结果以8比0的失败告终。

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

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The KIO's precondition for negotiations is that they discuss a new, federal constitution.

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This, say the Liberals, in effect amends the federal constitution, and so, under British Columbia's law, requires a referendum there.

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As in California last year, federal judges ruled in the 1970s that Louisiana's prisons were so overcrowded that they violated the federal constitution.

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