Ben Reiss left his job as an assistant public defender in favor of a higher paying job with a top private law firm.

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The Hobbesian state will always exist in a world of hostile other states, unregulated by some kind of higher law.

即国家总是存在于,一个充满敌意的世界里，而且总是被更高的法则约束着。

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The Jews were not considered Greeks, but at least they were higher in status in Alexandrian law than local Egyptians.

犹太人不是希腊人，但在法律规定却比当地埃及人地位高。

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There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

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