A bourgeois or a burgher was somebody who lived in a city and assumed that some of the justice that was levied against him or her would be the result of decisions taken locally.

布尔乔亚"意指住在城市里的居民,在他们看来依法纳税,是地方决策者强加于他们的

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But what I'm trying to get at is do you consider that you are under no obligation, since you haven't actually entered into any act of consent, but for prudential reasons, you do what you're supposed to do according to the law?

但我想知道的是，你认为自己,不负有任何义务，因为你并未真正作出任何形式的同意，只是出于谨慎考虑，你还是会依法缴税，是吗？

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