And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

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Not only in terms of the economic decisions that they can be make, but also in terms of people are able to throw their ways around in way the constitutions never authorize them to do.

不仅仅限于,他们可能做出的经济决定，还在于,人们可以不按常理出牌,以宪法,不允许的方式做事情。

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how people come to write constitutions

人们怎样编写宪法，

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It is the skill possessed by the greatest statesmen you might say the fathers of the constitutions as it were who create the permanent framework in which allows later and lesser figures to handle change.

这是最优政治家所应具备的技能,你也可以说,即是宪法之父,如同前人所公认，他创建永恒的架构,让后代及门徒们,能用以应付变革。

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