He interpreted the vote as support for the constitution and that is the spin his supporters are putting on the results today.

他把这次投票结果解释为对宪法的支持，这也是他的支持者们对今天的结果所做的诠释与宣传。

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This vision of the founders served as a basis for asserting that freedom was a national moral imperative, and that the United States Constitution was an antislavery document.

国父们的这种远见成为了主张自由是国家道德义务的基础，美国宪法是一份反奴隶制的文件。

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Theoretically, that would leave nothing for pathogens to make use of, thus suppressing infection and restoring, as it were, an iron constitution.

理论上，那样就不会给病原体以可乘之机，从而达到抑制传染和恢复原来健壮体格的目的。

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That is what the Constitution stands for." The congresswoman recalled Jackson as a humanitarian.

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In a letter in late 1861 from the front, "Will indeed settle the question, for some years at least, as to whether union or secession, the Constitution or rebellion, shall triumph.

在一封1861年年底来自前线的信中,"会解决问题,但至少需要数年,不管是联合还是独立,宪法抑或是起义,终将有一方胜利

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It's not merely a negative thing the way I think modern ideas about law, as for instance, represented in the American Constitution are, which is to say, its function is to prevent wrong doing, to punish wrong doing.

我的理解是,这里的法律,不仅仅指当今的法律条款,比如美国宪法所代表的那些内容,也就是,行使防范错误行为,以及惩罚错误行为的职能

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The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are.

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Responsibility for the information that we have transmitted today and for any further action now lie with the Congress as provided for by the Constitution.

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Most notably, it began treating Israel's Basic Laws, a sort of partial constitution, as if they were a real constitution, and has used them as a basis for junking other laws.

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