and that all others individuals,free states and national government are constitutionally bound to leave them alone about it.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

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We are physical objects that labor under the illusion that we have free will, but after all, free will isn't something that you can just see, right?

我们生活在人有自由意志,这样的错觉下,但毕竟,自由意志不是那种可以看得到的东西,对吧

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But he says federal inspections of all southbound vehicles are impeding the rightful free movement of tens of thousands.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

All men are born free and equal?"

人人都是生而自由和平等的吗"

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And there are some philosophers and psychologists who do just that, who claim that free will and responsibility and spiritual value and intrinsic value are all illusions; they're pre-scientific notions that get washed away in modern science or you could try to reconcile them.

一些哲学家和心理学家便是如此,他们认为,自由意志,责任,精神价值,内在价值,这些都是幻象,都是些前科学的概念,应当从现代科学中清洗出去,或者你可以试着将二者调和

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