For gold, the mysterious, yellow substance which seemed to defy the power of State and Church, was another article that had to be imported from abroad.

因为黄金，这种神秘的黄色物质，这种能够否决国家和教会力量的物质是另外一件需要从国外进口的东西。

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They wish to limit the power of the State.

他们希望限制政府权力。

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Federalism is intended to diminish the power of the central state.

联邦制度旨在削弱中央政府的权力。

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Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

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But the new Presbyterian Party soon developed its own methods of employing state power to control and regulate the church.

但新的长老派很快就发展了自己的办法,那就是利用政府权力控制和管理教会。

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Let me talk for a while about some of the formal features of Hobbes' sovereign power, of the Hobbesian state.

接下来我要说说,霍布斯关于君主权力和他理想下的国家',应当具有的一些特征。

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This simultaneously increases the power of state governments and of the federal department of education.

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There is also some debate about limiting the power of state prosecutors to file cases against individuals.

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Let's limit the power of state governments so they can only screw up things inside their own borders.

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