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civil power 統治權,政權。

civil procedure

Otherwise , as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age , those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation , and engross the civil power , which , for want of abilities to manage , must end in the ruin of the public 要不然,由于老年必然導致貪婪,那些長生不死的人遲早會成為整個國家的業主,壟斷全國的權力,但因為缺乏管理能力,最終又必然導致整個國家的毀滅。

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power 他施加影響,使軍隊獨立于文官政權之外,并凌駕于文官政權之上。