Machiavelli uses these two psychological and even in some ways quasi-medical terms, humors, to designate two classes of people on which every society is based.

马基雅维利运用这两个心理学上的,甚至某种程度上准医学的术语，人民特质，来界定两种不同阶级的人,每个社会都以此为基础。

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Hobbes derives the very power of the sovereign from the natural right of each individual to do as they like in the state of nature.

他认为君主的权力源自于,人民原本在自然社会中,能自由行使的个人权力。

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But if there's one thing and this is a little risky because there are always holes in any claim like this but if there's one distinct feature of the Old South society and indeed its leadership and most of its people, it would be what we might label anti-modernism.

但有一点,具有一定的风险,因为任何论点中都会有漏洞,如果说旧南方社会,的领导层和大部分人民,都有一个显著的特点,那就是在我们看来,他们是反现代的

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"The supreme power," By which Locke means the legislature, "Cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent, for the preservation of property being the end of government and that for which men enter into society, " it necessarily supposes and requires that people should have property."

最高权力“,这里洛克指的是立法机关，“未经本人同意，不能取去任何人财产的任何部分，因为，既然保护财产是政府的目的,也是人们加入社会的目的，这就必然假定而且要求人民应该享有财产权“

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And in the well governing of opinions consisteth the well governing of men's actions."

只有在人民给予肯定舆论的社会里,君主才能更好地掌控人民的作为“

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