"Every member of every northern legislature, " Webster said, "has sworn to support the constitution of the United States.
VOA: special.2009.04.02
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
Pierce wanted to run for re-election. Many northern Democrats,however, objected to his support of the pro-slavery legislature in Kansas.
VOA: special.2009.05.07
Both became lawyers. They each served in the Illinois state legislature before serving one term in the United States Congress.
VOA: special.2009.07.24
He would ask the New York legislature to show its support by electing him again to the Senate.
VOA: special.2010.04.22
Bank offices would be permitted in any state where the state legislature did not immediately refuse permission.
VOA: special.2009.01.29
In fact, the program has won the support of his local representative in the state legislature.
VOA: special.2010.02.04
Governor Schwarzenegger said California's finances were the main reason the Legislature changed the law.
VOA: special.2010.10.11
When he was just twenty-three years old, he was elected to the state legislature.
VOA: special.2010.08.05
For example, the state legislature in Mississippi said no black person could rent farmland.
VOA: special.2010.01.21
The Mormons then formed their own territorial government with a legislature and courts.
VOA: special.2009.06.04
As a result, almost every pro-slavery candidate was elected to the new legislature.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
So Reeder returned home and opened the first meeting of the territorial legislature.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
The same thing happened when Kansas finally held an election for a legislature.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
He served in the Illinois state legislature and in the United States Congress.
VOA: special.2009.02.06
No wonder the state legislature instead calls Indiana "The Crossroads of America."
VOA: special.2009.08.09
No wonder the state legislature instead calls Indiana the Crossroads of America.
VOA: special.2011.01.09
Pro-slavery settlers urged Reeder to hold immediate elections for a territorial legislature.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
Patrick Henry was elected to the Virginia legislature in seventeen sixty-five.
VOA: special.2009.04.24
Then they won a majority of seats in the territorial legislature.
VOA: special.2009.05.07
The state legislature agreed to open a convention on December seventeenth.
VOA: special.2009.07.16
The pro-slavery legislature passed a bill calling for such a convention.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
In nineteen ten,he won election to the New York State Legislature.
VOA: special.2011.03.17
The Kansas legislature also sent a message to President Pierce.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
He refused to call a meeting of the state legislature.
VOA: special.2009.08.20
The newly elected legislature chose him to be senator.
VOA: special.2009.06.11
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