Buchanan said he expected the Supreme Court to rule soon on the right of the people of a territory to decide this.

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And that's when, if you had everybody come to the theater for a big debate about something, you could still have people voting on certain things that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't rule themselves completely by themselves.

所以当时，如果所有人到剧院,对某一问题进行辩论，还是可以通过投票,决定某些事情，虽然他们无法进行完全的民主统治。

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Now all we have to decide is,was the branching rule satisfied or violated?

我们要决定的只是分支的规定是否被破坏？

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