His decision would show which issue was more important: the citizens' right to free speech, or national security.
VOA: special.2009.10.29
And so we should base morality, whether we're thinking about what to do in our own lives or whether as legislators or citizens, we're thinking about what the laws should be.
所以我们应以道德为基准,不管是在考虑个人行为时,还是作为立法者或普通公民,考虑如何立法时。
Regimes or constitutions you might say are forms or formalities that determine how power is shared and distributed among citizens.
政体或宪法是一堆形式或形态,那决定了权力如何,共享与分配给其公民。
A challenge that affects parents, children and citizens in almost every community in America should not be a Democratic problem or a Republican problem.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
Actually the City of Corinth wouldn't have been taxed because it was a Roman colony, and one of the benefits of being a Roman colony is that you didn't have to pay taxes, or at least the citizens didn't have to pay taxes.
事实上科林斯城以前从不收税,因为它是罗马的殖民地,成为罗马殖民地的一个好处是,不必交税,或者至少公民不用付。
It said all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States and of the state in which they lived.
VOA: special.2010.02.04
Many laws try to promote the virtue of citizens or try to give expression to the moral values of the society as a whole.
很多法律试图提高公民的品德,或者试图树立,整个社会的道德标准。
But Brennan told NBC that all terrorists arrested on U.S.soil are tried in civilian court, whether or not they are American citizens.
VOA: standard.2010.02.07
What they would call a polis might only be 1000 citizens or 5000.
一座希腊城市可能只有1000到5000人。
"We see an increasing number of cases of lese majeste, whether open or secretly, arresting these citizens."
VOA: standard.2010.07.06
What most distinguishes Aristotle is that his language is addressed emphatically to citizens and statesmen not to other political scientists or philosophers. It has a public orientation.
亚里士多德最突出的地方是,他的语言明显地是指向公民与政治家,而非其它的政治科学家或哲学家,其倾向是公众,直接指向公众。
What would a community ? of Socratic citizens look like, each one picking and choosing, you might say, the laws or the rules to obey or to follow or not to follow.
苏格拉底式的公民社群,会是什么样子,每个人都自己挑选,想服从,遵守及不遵守的法律。
What does that say about your thinking about ? your fellow citizens when you arm yourselves going for a trip, of his fellow citizens ? when he locks his doors at night or of his children ? and servants when he locks his chests?
你们觉得你的同胞对你,带着武器骑行有什么看法,把门闩起来的时候,对同胞们是什么看法,把箱子锁起来时对自己的子女仆人是什么看法?
The citizens of such a city can only reach their telos or perfection through participating in the offices, in the ruling offices of a city.
这样一座城的公民,只能透过参与公职,才能达到他们的,Telos,或完善,而且是城市中统治阶级的公职。
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