Until Texas became a state, almost all national leaders seemed to accept the idea that Congress did have this power.

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And the reasons for this coupling of the name Milton and of this idea or the metaphor of power, I think, are worth looking in to.

我认为，人们之所以将米尔顿这个名字,与力量这个概念配对的原因是值得研究的。

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The idea was that power to the people rather than the central government.

核心目的是权利属于人民,而不是属于中央政府。

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As Arnold Kling has written, the primacy of power is assumed while the idea that power should be decentralized and rolled back is perceived as the truly fringe-y idea.

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Most of his own followers, including those in his church, hate the idea of power-sharing.

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If the coalition works, voters may warm to the idea of power-sharing, and to the proportional voting systems that inevitably give rise to it. (A referendum on the alternative-vote electoral model, which the Lib Dems prefer over Westminster's first-past-the-post system, is part of the deal.) And the Lib Dems got all this despite flopping at the polls.

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