"The bill also calls for tangible progress in governance - including an independent judiciary, greater accountability by the central government, respect for human rights and civilian control of the levers of power, including the military and intelligence agency."

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

The idea was that power to the people rather than the central government.

核心目的是权利属于人民,而不是属于中央政府。

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So Socrates has become a very central symbol of political resistance and resistance to political power and of the dangers to the individual of unchecked rule.

所以，苏格拉底已,成为政治抵抗的中心标志,还有抵抗政治权力,及未受管束之规则对个人的危害。

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