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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Regimes or constitutions you might say are forms or formalities that determine how power is shared and distributed among citizens.

政体或宪法是一堆形式或形态,那决定了权力如何,共享与分配给其公民。

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how people come to write constitutions

人们怎样编写宪法，

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That's not what the American constitution is about, but it was what the Greek constitutions were about.

美国宪法并非如此,但希腊史上的宪法制度却是如此的

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He collected constitutions, 158 of them in all, from throughout the ancient world.

他收集全部158，条宪法，范围横跨古代世界的全部疆域。

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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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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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