君主统治的权力受到了新法律的制约。

The power of the monarchy was circumscribed by the new law.

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他们希望用和斯巴达人一样的方式来统治希腊，让它保持自由并生活在自己的法律之下，而他们并没有成功。

They wished to hold Greece in almost the same manner as the Spartans held it, making it free and leaving it under its own laws, and they did not succeed.

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一连串的法律纠纷反倒巩固了他的统治法理。

A handful of legal skirmishes have strengthened his hand.

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Justice is nothing more or less right than what benefits the rulers, the rulers who determine the laws of justice.

正义没有对错,只要那对统治者有利，因是由他们决定正义的法律。

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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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