Of course, history is replete with examples of autocrats perverting justice: Stalin had his Moscow Trials, and Hitler had his People’s Court. But the authority of those dictators did not rest primarily on the rule of law; that of their modern counterparts does.
当然，历史充斥着独裁者假装公正的例子：斯大林及其莫斯科审判、希特勒及其人民法庭，等等。但这些独裁者的威权并不像他们的现代同道一样首先建立在法治的基础上。