Because the sovereign is the source of law and the sovereign is the source of the rules of justice.

因为他既是法律的根源,又是公平正义的裁定者。

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In a sense, the core of Hobbes' theory of sovereignty can be boiled down to the statement that the sovereign and only the sovereign is the source of law.

从一定意义上讲,霍布斯对国家权力的核心观点,可以概述为,君主，而且只有君主,是法律效力的唯一源泉。

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There can be no such thing as an unjust law, he infers, again, because the sovereign is the source of all justice.

而且这世上不可能有不公正的法律，因为君主就是,一切正义与公平的裁定者。

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There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

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