And it said each southern state must approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that gave citizenship to blacks.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Suppose we were trying to decide on a constitution for the world in that state.

比如我们会讨论决定,这个世界的结构体制。

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Most Greek states, just as they never moved beyond the hoplite style of fighting, never go beyond the oligarchical style of constitution which gives only hoplites political rights in the state.

大多数希腊城邦,从未超越过步兵方阵的作战方式,也从未超越过寡头统治的政体,只有在这样的政体下,步兵才有政治权利

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In exchange for this, Sherman said the president would recognize state governments in the south which promised to support the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Thomas R. Dew, a very important pro-slavery writer, who wrote a whole book in the wake of the state of Virginia's debates in 1831 and '32 over whether to re-write its Constitution.

托马斯·德夫,一个非常重要的亲奴主义作家,曾在弗吉尼亚州于1831和32年开展的,关于是否重写其宪法的辩论之后,撰写过一本书

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

VOA: special.2010.06.24

No matter what its constitution was, no matter how these differed from one another, the idea was that the state has to make good men and that for a city to be good, the men must be good.

不论宪法体制如何,不论世间千变万化,其主旨始终围绕着,政府必须培育良民,而只有公民优秀,才能让城市更加美好

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Little Delaware is called the First State because it was the first state the first to approve the new United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

He would ask Congress to accept the pro-slavery Kansas constitution and make the territory a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Fifty-two percent of California voters amended the state constitution in November of two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Later cases ruled that teaching religious creation stories in public schools violates the First Amendment of the Constitution that calls for separation of church and state.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

He said the people of California already had approved an anti-slavery state constitution.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Buchanan declared that the constitution gave no state the right to leave.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The resolution said simply that the people of South Carolina were ending the agreement of seventeen eighty-eight in which the state had approved the Constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

He reported that California leaders had written a state constitution.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Mr.Mogae had served 10 years as head-of-state, the maximum allowed by the constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The high court ruling says the right to have a handgun for self defense is a fundamental right under the Second Amendment to the U.S.Constitution and applies to state and local jurisdictions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Senator Webb also met with Prime Minister Thien Sein, Foreign Minister Nyan Win, the chairman of the State Constitution Drafting Commission Aung Toe and representatives from political parties, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy and state-affiliated social organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15