It's subsequently seen as one of the precursors of the First Amendment to the American Constitution.

后来它被看作是美国宪法,第一修正案的前身。

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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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So Aristotle was not without his own critique of the American constitution and American political culture.

所以，亚里士多德,也评论了美国宪法,及美国的政治文化。

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Each of you, who is above 18 and is an American citizen, and was born in America above whatever it is, whatever the rule is, whatever the Constitution says), each of you can potentially stand up now and say you're going to run for president.

你们中每一个到了18岁的美国公民,并生在美国,大于不论几岁,不论规定是多少,不论宪法怎么规定,你们都可以站出来,参加总统竞选

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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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The inevitable conclusion that I reach and I believe any sensible reader of Aristotle would reach is that Aristotle in fact discovered the American Constitution 1 500 or 2 000 years before it was written.

但会得到结论,且我相信,任何敏感的亚里士多德读者都会得到的结论是,亚里士多德，事实上,早在美国宪法写就之前的,1，500，或，2，000，年即已创建。

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It's not merely a negative thing the way I think modern ideas about law, as for instance, represented in the American Constitution are, which is to say, its function is to prevent wrong doing, to punish wrong doing.

我的理解是,这里的法律,不仅仅指当今的法律条款,比如美国宪法所代表的那些内容,也就是,行使防范错误行为,以及惩罚错误行为的职能

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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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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