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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He seems, in this way, to anticipate what we might think of as the modern welfare state that public assistance be provided, and the poor, not simply depend on the private goodwill of the others.

如此看来,霍布斯已经预见到了,我们现代社会国家福利制度的出现，穷人不只依靠个人的善意施舍度日,更多的是求助于国家提供的福利保障。

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