Yet this Council was of some service to the colony: one of its first ACTS was to introduce the English jury system, in place of arbitrary trials by Government officials.

立法会对殖民地还是作出了一些贡献：它所立的最早的一批法令之一引进了英国的陪审团制度，用以取代行政官员的恣意审判行为。

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This has been the situation in the Congo for many years." One of the reports focuses on the actions of government forces, some of whom engaged in large-scale pillaging, arbitrary killings and sexual violence.

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It is when political functions become concentrated into the hands of again the too few hands that we risk arbitrary government and the endangerment to the liberty of the individual.

因为一旦政治职权,过度集中于,少数人的手中,我们面临的风险,便是独断政府,及个人自由的危机。

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Locke is against arbitrary government.

洛克是反对专制政府的。

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But it will be much more potent if the courts act as the last line of defence against the corrosiveness of arbitrary government.

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But there need not always be arbitrary, inefficient, and wasteful government regulation.

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