The proposed defense treaty was also to be buttressed by plans for a European political community whose main features were to be defined by a constitutional commission made up of members of national parliaments.

提议中的防御公约本来还要通过一个欧洲政治共同体计划来加强。该共同体的主要特点将会通过一个由各 国议会组成的宪法委员会来明确。

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But the germ of such a debate exists, and it sounds very different from that which dominated the failed constitutional referendum campaign in France two years ago.

但是这一辩论的潜质依旧存在，而且，它与两年前主导法国有关欧盟宪法全民公决的竞选大相径庭。

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But Geert Wilders, leader of the right-wing, anti-Muslim Freedom Party, was so disgusted by the Dutch queen’s “multi-cultural rubbish” that he wanted her to be stripped of her constitutional role in the government.

但是，荷兰右翼反穆斯林的自由党领导人怀德对于荷兰女王的“ 多元文化废话”极为反感，乃至于他想剥夺女王在政府中的宪法地位。

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Yet the real challenge for Western policy in Lebanon is neither constitutional reform nor establishment of the Hariri tribunal.

然而，西方对黎巴嫩政策的真正挑战既不是宪法改革，也不是哈里里案仲裁庭的建立。

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This is why the crisis over the presidential election was actually a crisis of the constitutional order installed by the military when it ruled from 1980-1983.

这也就是为什么说总统大选危机其实是在1980-1983年间统治土耳其的军方所建立的宪法秩序的危机。

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The very reason that led a majority of the French to say “no” to the referendum on the European Union’s draft Constitutional Treaty in May 2005 may lead them to vote for Bayrou, the most pro-European of all candidates.

2005年5月大部分法国人在全民公决中否决欧盟宪法草案的原因可能致使他们把票投给在所有候选人中最为亲欧洲的贝鲁。

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The decision of the Constitutional Court, confirming the military court's jurisdiction over civilians, has been received with energetic disapproval on the part of distinguished legal personalities and associations.

宪法法院的裁决肯定了军事法庭对平民的管辖权,它受到了著名法律界人士和各法律联合会的激烈反 对.

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In fact, the Constitutional Treaty defines more clearly which competencies should be shared between the EU and its member states, and how.

事实上，宪法条约非常清楚地表明了欧盟和它的成员国应该以及如何分享权力。

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The UN has given the ICTY three excellent prosecutors: Richard Goldstone from the South African Constitutional Court, Louise Arbour from the Canadian Supreme Court, and Del Ponte, a formidable prosecutor from Switzerland.

联合国为前南国际刑事法庭派驻了三名优秀的检察官：他们是南非宪法法院的理查德·古德斯通（Richard Goldstone）、加拿大最高法院的路易斯·阿尔布尔（Louise Arbour）以及来自瑞士的令人敬畏的检查官德尔蓬特。

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