They believed that it should be used to protect individual rights and public liberty, and that it had a special role where individual effort was ineffective.

他们认为，它应该用来保护个人权利和公共自由，在个人的努力无效时，它具有特殊的作用。

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Among the great thinkers there is profound disagreement over the answers to even the most fundamental questions concerning justice concerning rights concerning liberty.

伟大的思想家之间，对答案却总有着深刻的意见相左，甚至是对于最基本的问题，像是有关正义，权利和自由。

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Just as he had been at Yale, he was all for state's rights when it came to restrictions on individual liberty.

与在耶鲁大学时一样，当各州的权利约束了个人自由的时候，他总是支持各州的权益。

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Their role is to protect the religious liberty rights of students;

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Unalienable rights to life, liberty, and as Jefferson amended Locke, to the pursuit of happiness. Unalienable rights.

生命与自由不可剥夺，还在洛克基础上加上了，追求幸福的权利，都是不可剥夺的权利。

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But those human laws are only legitimate if they respect our natural rights, if they respect our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.

但这些人类法律合法的唯一前提,就是尊重我们的自然权利，尊重我们不可剥夺的生命，自由和财产权。

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Mr Sell's brief to the Supreme Court follows this line of argument, making broad claims that the government's efforts to inject him with mind-altering drugs is such a breach of his rights to liberty, bodily integrity, freedom of thought, personal autonomy and privacy that it should not be allowed.

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Diller took over and the two uber-moguls crafted an agreement giving Diller the proxy rights to vote Liberty Media's controlling shares until Diller quit or died.

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Fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property precede government and reside in the people as natural rights.

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