来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代社会理论基础 第19集》

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  and bureaucratic rule, modern liberal democratic system
  官僚统治 现代自由民主制度
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  or modern not-that-democratic system,
  或现代不太民主的制度
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  but systems which still do have rules of law.
  虽不太民主 但法律仍有一定效应
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  There are actually authoritarian systems
  事实上 独裁体制
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  which do operate with rules of law,
  也得依靠法律规则来运作
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  where authoritarian leaders actually do themselves follow the law
  独裁者他们自己 也得遵守法律
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  and take law seriously and implement laws seriously.
  严肃对待法律 并严格执法
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  So legal-rational authority does not mean liberal democracy.
  所以法理权威并不意味着自由民主
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  It simply means that this is a system
  只能说明这个制度
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  in which there is a rule of law,
  存在法律的规则
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  even if the leader itself can be not particularly democratic.
  即使统治者本身并不民主
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  Democracy, as we understand it, is a very recent phenomenon.
  我们理解的民主 是近代才出现的