In 2008,the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington,D.C.law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.

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You can pick out words that are identical. The purpose of the law is to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty."

你可以找出完全相同的话，法律的目的是,“树立正义，保障国内的安宁，建立共同的国防,增进全民福利和确保我们自己及我们後代,能安享自由带来的幸福“

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In American law, you cannot terminate an employee, for the sole purpose of age.

美国法律规定，如果你仅因为年龄原因辞退员工，

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The purpose of a good law is to facilitate human agency in some ways.

一部好的法律应当是,为促进更好的权力而制定。

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This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

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The purpose of law, Hobbes tell us, is not so much to control but to facilitate.

他还是说，法律的目的并非是要控制什么,而是要让事情变得井井有条更容易处理。

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