Civil disobedience, violent or non-violent, is intentional law breaking.

公民抗命，不管是暴力还是非暴力的，都是故意犯法。

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Another possible explanation for historians' neglect of the subject is their widespread assumption that most people in early modern England had little contact with civil law.

历史学家们忽视这一问题的另一个可能解释是，他们普遍认为现代早期英格兰人与民法接触甚少。

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With the Civil Code, China hopes to set up a country under the rule of law with better protection for civil rights.

通过《民法典》，中国希望建立一个法治国家，更好地保护公民权利。

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During the campaign, Harrison had promised to enforce the civil service law that protected the job rights of government workers.

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For the most part Deuteronomy doesn't really contain much in the way of civil law. It tends to focus on the moral-religious prescriptions kind of the apodictic law in Israel--and the few civil laws that are there tend to be reworked in line with Deuteronomy's humanity.

在申命记中的大部分中并不饱含民法的内容,它倾向于关注宗教道德的规定,某种以色列人的绝对的律法，而民法的存在,倾向于和申命记中的人道主义保持一致。

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But this raises, I think, the central or a central point about Socratic citizenship or Socrates' view of citizenship, this kind of principled disobedience to the law, something like Thoreau's model of civil disobedience.

但这产生了，一个中心的观点,关于苏格拉底式的公民社会,或是苏格拉底对公民社会的看法，这种原则性的反抗法律，有点像梭罗的,公民反抗模式。

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Some economists point to a difference between common-law and civil-law economies.

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Zimbabwe observes both civil law and traditional law, and the vast majority of women (except for white women and the few African women who marry under civil law) come under traditional law.

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The two factors most closely associated with higher liability costs are the number of lawyers and whether the country has a common-law system like the U.S., where judges decide much of the law governing liability or a civil law tradition, where the rules are set down in a relatively unchanging civil code.

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