It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws.

它可能是一个具有国家属性的、以法律为后盾的实体。

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We know our freedom could not be truly safe unless all of us were protected by a body of laws that treated us equally.

我们明白，除非我们大家都受到在其面前人人平等的法律的保护，否则我们的自由便不可能有真正的保障。

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And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

又哪一大国有这样公义的律例典章，像我今日在你们面前所陈明的这一切律法呢？

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The body of laws and international agreements that have been carefully built up (and fought for) over centuries to protect all people from arbitrary authority and persecution.

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