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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If you think about the American idea as an example of the modern way of thinking about these things, the notion is we can't do anything.

如果你以美国式理念作为,一种现代思维方式去,思考这些内容的话,就会觉得无法可施

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