If such a catastrophe happened now, not only is social power perhaps too depleted for the like exercise, but the general instinct would be to let the State see to it.

如果这个大灾难现在发生的话，不仅社会力量力不从心，而且公众会下意识的让国家来处理。

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Judges is an important component of the legal profession community, the principal of the exercise of state judicial power.

法官是法律职业共同体的重要组成部分，是行使国家司法权力的具体主体。

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The government now dismisses the idea that one function of the law is to defend people against the arbitrary exercise of state power.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

Whatever the motivation, many ordinary Chinese are hoping that the result will be an improvement in the quality of their lives -- and greater protection from the arbitrary exercise of state power.

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Expansive federal inaction was read to displace a traditionally sound exercise of state police power that only sought to complement federal law as written.

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