It is the product, the creation of the people or of what we might call, in Jeffersonian language, it is the product of the consent of the governed.

我们可以说它是人民权力的产物,但若用杰斐逊的话讲，我们也可以说它是，统治者们互相默许下的产物。

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There's some space up in heaven where all the unborn babies are that will live in the future and, unfortunately, they're not able to have a town meeting; but, let's suppose they could.

想象一下在天堂的某处,所有尚未出生但即将诞生的小婴儿们在那儿，可惜的是，他们开不了人民大会吧;,不过，我们假设这能成真。

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A regime refers to both the formal enumeration of rights and duties within a community but it also addresses something closer to what we would call the way of life or the culture of a people.

政体意指一个社群中,正式的权利与义务项目,但它也同时是指我们所熟悉的事务,诸如生活的模式,与人民的文化。

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That's why all these arguments that we all get into these days about third-party political candidates what do we really need in our political culture, what would break apart the stagnation of our two-party system, if that's what people want or put more directly, will Michael Bloomberg run or not?

这就是我们今天为何面对这些争论,关于第三方党派的候选人,也就是我们的政治文化中究竟需要什么,什么能打破我们两党制停滞不前的现状呢,如果这是人民所愿,或者更直接的说,迈克尔.布隆伯格的做法行得通吗

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