You know of course that this is absolutely crucial to the study of the law to this day: what are the grounds for understanding the meaning of the Constitution, for example?

你们当然知道,今天这些问题对于法学研究很关键：,比如，理解宪法的,根据是什么？

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But more importantly still--those are all crucial but there's an extra ingredient as well-- he thinks he's got good reason to believe, when he dies he's going to go, basically, to what we'd call heaven.

更重要的是,当然前面几点也很重要,但是还有更重要的一点,他觉得他有理由相信,他死后他将去到一个,我们通常称为天堂的地方

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