The matter the substance the material basis of a regime concerns its citizen body.

本质，政体的物质基础,是其公民本体最关心的。

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So we move now from the matter of the regime as to what constitutes its citizens and its citizen body to the question of the form of the regime its forms its formalities its structures and institutions you might say.

我们因此从政体的物质,即组构公民与公民本体的物质,转向政体形式的问题,其形式其形态,其结构与制度。

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