"Sovereignty" not only reflects the authority of state, but also embraces concrete powers, and in the meantime it is reflected both in the internal and external relations.

主权不是一个纯质的、仅仅体现国家权威的概念，它包含具体的权力内容并在对内和对外关系中得到体现。

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Most states impose limitations on the authority of the legislature to borrow money, with their objectives being to protect taxpayers and the credit of the state government.

大多数州对立法机关借贷的权力加以限制，其目的是保护纳税人和维护州政府的信誉。

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Many of them, like Boston, do not have the authority to raise taxes and must rely on state funding.

这些城市中有许多（像波士顿）没有权力提高税收，只能倚赖各州提供资金支持。

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He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.

他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务，或者国家事物，因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。

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It never lost entirely its original character as an insurgent movement, independent of the state and hostile to it, making claims that challenge the secular authority.

它从来没有失去充满,反抗精神的本原色,它独立于国家并与之格格不入,公然向世俗权威发起挑战

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They are unregulated by law; they are unregulated by authority. The state of nature is simply a kind of condition of maximum insecurity, an unregulated market with no common laws or rules to sustain it.

法律，权威使然,自然状态就是,一种最大安全感的状态,是一种没有法律规范维持的,不加管制的市场。

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