Monday's ruling said that right applies also to state and local gun control laws.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.

这再一次印证了典型共和派的的宗旨,根据于我们是完全的人，我们要变成完全的人，当我们被牵扯到政治生活中，我们用我们自己制造的法律来统治自己。

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Gun activists are hoping to use that five to four ruling by the Supreme Court to challenge local and state gun control laws around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Two states banned them outright. Those laws were rendered invalid for married women by a 1965 Supreme Court decision and the ruling was expanded in 1972 to cover all women.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12