It closed the country to criminals, the mentally ill,and persons who could not support themselves.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

How we are seen by others is a crucial cardinal part of Hobbes' moral psychology and each of us, he says, contain. These do not simply represent two classes of individuals, two classes of persons.

别人怎么看我们是霍布斯,道德心理学中重要的中心内容，他说我们每个人心中都有这两种情绪,这不仅代表了两个阶层的个体，两个阶层的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

At first,corporations were not fully recognized as persons.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

"where persons were not brought to the United States at all, but were dumped in third countries for the purpose of torture."

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

"However,if we begin to see numbers of people who are getting infected who have not any contact with such persons, then this really becomes much stronger evidence that we are seeing community to community spread."

VOA: standard.2009.05.14