Jefferson, says Mr Gore, was right: "Rousseau said the body politic is a moral being possessed of a will."

戈尔先生说：“杰弗逊是正确的。”‘卢梭说过，国家是支配意志的道德’。

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Its very existence represents a shift in the way news and information course through our overserved body politic.

它的存在代表着一种转变——我们这个国家信息泛滥，而新闻和信息流经它的方式正在发生转变。

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This is a recurring rhetoric, this notion that there is a cancer in the body politic.

这是一种经常反复出现的修辞，这个国家的政治体系是有潜在的危险的。

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But such objections hardly reflect the public view, increasingly strongly held, that the police are untrustworthy and ineffectual and that the judicial system is prey to the influence of a body politic that is itself corrupt: witness the dismally long list of politicians convicted of corruption or under investigation.

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Kessler believes that Obama's vision of a new body politic is a fraud.

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Arguably, federal patronage politics is a cancer on the body politic guaranteed to attract endless sums of lobbyists and lobbyist cash.

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