They did this because they didn't want the upper-class in Rome, who were the elite, they didn't want any one household, or any small group of households, to become too powerful.

因为他们不想罗马的上层阶级，即精英阶层，一户独大。

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Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.

以色列啊！你要听：耶和华我们神是独一的主你要尽心,尽性，尽力爱耶和华你的神,我今日所吩咐你的话都要记在心上。

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And this universality was given expression in Dante's famous treatise, De Monarchia, of monarchy, that set out a model for a universal Christian state, based on the unity and oneness of the human race under a Christian ruler.

而这种特性可追溯,至但丁的著名论述《论王权》,探讨君主政权,这设定了一种普遍基督国的模式，根据统一,与独一的人种皆受基督王权的统治。

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