Another famous ancient piece is the "Law Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon."

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The law code of Hammurabi is available to us and there's a preface to it in which he basically explains why you should obey the rules that he now is laying down for you.

汉莫拉比法典为我们提供了证据,汉莫拉比在法典的前言中向我们解释了,为什么要遵守他颁布的法律

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It should not be limited or constrained by any transcendent standards or moral laws that do not derive from politics itself, whether a law of God or some kind of transcendent moral order or code.

它不可以被任何超验的准则或道德条律所,限制和束缚，因为那些并非源自于,政治本身，无论那是上帝的法则，还是,某种超验的道德命令或准则。

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