But many Democrats have rallied to Holder's defense, arguing that a federal court trial for the alleged 9/11 plotters will show the world that the United States has faith in its civilian legal institutions and the rule of law.

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It seems to me to be evident that whatever it's other characteristics, the West has created institutions of government and law that provide unprecedented freedom for its people.

在我看来,很显然,就算各国国情千秋百态,但西方建立的政府机构与设立的法律制度,都给与其治下的公民史无前例的自由

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So we move now from the matter of the regime as to what constitutes its citizens and its citizen body to the question of the form of the regime its forms its formalities its structures and institutions you might say.

我们因此从政体的物质,即组构公民与公民本体的物质,转向政体形式的问题,其形式其形态,其结构与制度。

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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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