First, the vote was for a new member of the House of Lords rather than the Commons, and by an odd procedure that strains even Britain's notoriously elastic constitutional arrangements.

第一，这次选举是选上议院议员而不是下议院议员，而且选举程序怪异的恪守堪称英国臭名昭著的灵活的法制体系。

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Gaffney, Jr. makes cleear effective civilian-military relations are a function of mutual respect, not merely constitutional arrangements.

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So its government goes into the 21st century under a set of constitutional arrangements designed for the 19th.

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Thanks to these constitutional arrangements and institutions, the people's rule here has been assured for over two hundred years.

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