首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨代表法院写道：“代议制政府的基本契约假定，公职人员将听取选民的意见，并根据他们关心的事情采取行动。”

"The basic compact underlying representative government," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the court, "assumes that public officials will hear from their constituents and act on their concerns."

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他们的体制似乎同时具有强有力的政府与比例代表制这两种理想状况。

Their system seems to combine the two ideals of strong government and proportional representation.

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作为向政府银行提供战争贷款的回报，议会授予它对股份制银行的垄断地位。

It was granted a monopoly on joint-stock banking by Parliament in return for giving war loans to the government.

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Although here, it's as if the government is electing by conscription certain citizens to go die for the sake of the whole.

尽管目前，好像是政府,在通过征兵制选择特定的公民,为了全体利益而死。

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I think if you look at conscription as the government picking out certain individuals to go fight in war, then that would be a violation of their natural right to life.

我想如果你把征兵制,视为政府挑选特定的个人去参战，那确实是对自然权利中生命权的侵犯。

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