But this decentralized federalist structure is part of who they thought they were and who they continue to think they are.

这种联邦制分权的政治架构,是他们对自己现在及将来身份的认知

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Its purpose is to lay bare as it were the fundamental problems the fundamental concepts and categories which frame the study of politics.

它的目的一向是要提出基础的问题,最基础的概念与类别,以建立政治研究的架构。

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Today it is the hope of many people both here and abroad That we might even overcome might even transcend the basic structure of regime politics altogether and organize our world around global norms of justice and international law.

这是现今许多人的期望,不论是在美国还是国际上,我们或许甚至能克服,并超越政体政治的基本架构，彻底地,以全球典范来组织我们的世界,透过司法与国际法。

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