You know, I started off as a waiter.

你知道，我最早开始时做服务生。

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Some of the most open exercises of states' rights, of course, before the 1850s, were conducted by Northerners, like in the Hartford Convention of 1814, like in personal liberty laws that we'll come to a bit later.

州政府最早开始尝试行使权力,还是在十九世纪五十年代之前,由北方人主导的,就像1814年的哈特福德公约,就像我们马上要说到的个人自由法

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