They said the Constitution did not give the president the power to violate the property rights of citizens.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

because you read the Bill of Rights, for example, The Declaration of Independence, citizens have a duty to put a new government if it is not serving well the people.

举个例子，如果你读《人权法案》,或者《独立宣言》,如果政府不够尽责,公民有权支持一个新的政府。

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It's limited by the obligation on the part of the majority to respect and to enforce the fundamental natural rights of the citizens.

它受限于多数人有义务尊重,并维护公民的基本自然权利。

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It said no state could limit the rights of these citizens.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

All right, so an elected government can conscript citizens to go out and defend the way of life, the community that makes the enjoyment of rights possible?

好的，所以说民选政府是可以征召公民,上战场为了他们的生活而战的，使得社会能够继续享有这些权利吗？

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"That means protecting the rights of Egypt's citizens, lifting the emergency law, revising the constitution and other laws to make this change irreversible and laying out a clear path to elections that are fair and free.

VOA: special.2011.02.12

"All who embrace core democratic values long for a Cuba that respects the basic human, political and economic rights of all of its citizens.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

Phillip Van Cleave, President of the Virginia Citizens Defense League,a gun rights group.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Supporters of the code, more than a decade in the making, praised it as enhancing the rights of women and girls, who they say have been traditionally viewed as second-class citizens.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27