[求助]专外很多很晕的地方，帖出一些各位帮忙一下。

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这是出自ZACHER和MATTHEW的liberal international theory:common threads,divergent strands
  关于自由主义的分支，有laissez-faire liberalism,以john locke 为代表，in these variant,moral and ethical principles were seen as independent of political process,as in locke^s notion of an objective natural law against which positive law might be assessed这个该怎么翻译？什么是positive law?