He says this means establishing the rule of law, rejecting the idea of a police state and supporting the separation of power.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And I think for that reason that religion is maybe the largest challenge to the idea of human rights as it is currently incapsulated in human rights law, both out of the United Nations and also other international bodies and domestic bodies.

基于这一点，我认为宗教可能是,人权观念最大的挑战,因为它现在受到人权法压制，无论是在联合国,还是其他国际国内的组织里都是如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

This idea that no law can violate our right to life, liberty, and property would seem to support the idea of a government so limited that it would gladden the heart of the libertarian after all.

任何法律都不能侵犯生命自由和财产权的观点,似乎是支持“有限政府“这一观点的,这点无疑很讨自由主义者欢心。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选