And by the way, we, the people of progress, are rooted in those principles of the Declaration of Independence" which are written down essentially as creeds "And, oh and by the way, we have a written Constitution we actually wrote it down, we have a Bill of Rights where we declare these things on paper, unlike the Brits."

顺便说一下,我们,作为进步的人类,是独立宣言的主旨",它被写成文字,作为信条,"顺便再说一下,我们还有一部成文大宪章,我们把它写下来,我们有《人权法案》,一切白纸黑字申明清楚,不像那些英国佬"

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But that may simply be our own prejudice to think that my friend at Peter Simpson the CUNY Graduate Center Peter Simpson has argued in a paper that I found quite convincing that Aristotle had in fact discovered the American Constitution.

但那么想可能只是我们自己的偏见,我任教于,纽约，CUNY，研究中心的友人,他在其文章中主张,而我觉得十分具有说服力,他说亚里士多德,事实上，早就创建了美国宪法。

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