Lincoln said no state had a legal right to secede the Union could not be broken.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Hobbes, in other words, tried to render acceptable, tried to render palatable, what Machiavelli had done by providing a more precise and more legal and institutional framework for the modern state.

霍布斯，换句话说，试图去变得易于接受，试图去变得更加愉快，马基雅维利的做法是,给现代国家提供一个,更加精确，更加法定的机构性框架。

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It also said the United States recognizes a government's right to defend itself from attacks by terrorist groups, but that it expects both state and non-state actors to comply with international legal obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22