"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