Now,there was even a group of nobles who believed that they could be elected, that if you had an election people would actually vote to restore the monarchy.

当时甚至有一群贵族,相信人们会选择君主制,相信如果人们有选举权,他们就会投票保留君主政体

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And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

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