The example, and the ideas it produced, encouraged and informed the French and the American revolutions, and the entire modern constitutional tradition.

这次革命和它的理念,促成了,法国和美国的大革命,并使现代宪法制度得以发展

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But there's a theoretical framework, and it will catch up with the French monarchs, among others, later-- that the ruler must be a father, a benevolent figure.

不过,有一种理论框架,使法国的君主终自食恶果,这种理论认为统治者必是父亲一样善良的人

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