But what about the big claim, the premise, the big idea underlying the libertarian argument?

但自由主义的论证中，最根本的主张,其前提和基础又如何呢？

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His claim that the lives of his fellow citizens are not worth living and his claim that his way of life has been commanded by a god that no one else has ever heard or seen.

他主张其同胞的人生,不值得活,和自己的生活方式,是受神性的指示,这些都未曾有人听闻过。

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You can't understand a regime unless you understand so to speak what it stands for what a people stand for what they look up to as well as its again its structure of institutions and rights and privileges.

你无法了解政体,除非你了解它的主张,人民的主张与敬重的政体,还有其机构,权利与福利的结构。

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But that may simply be our own prejudice to think that my friend at Peter Simpson the CUNY Graduate Center Peter Simpson has argued in a paper that I found quite convincing that Aristotle had in fact discovered the American Constitution.

但那么想可能只是我们自己的偏见,我任教于,纽约，CUNY，研究中心的友人,他在其文章中主张,而我觉得十分具有说服力,他说亚里士多德,事实上，早就创建了美国宪法。

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