Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.

但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。

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You will find very rare of the case of a Greek city, which is founded away from the sea; they always wanted to be close to the sea for varieties of reasons.

你会发现希腊城市中很少见的现象,那就是它们远离大海,诸多的原因致使希腊人,愿意把城市建设在离海近的地方

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But the idea that regimes may be created or founded by a set of deliberate acts raises a further question that we will study ? and is inseparable from the study of regimes.

但政体可能是经一系列深思熟虑的举动创设,与建立的概念，导出了另一个,我们将加以研究的问题,这个问题与政体研究密不可分，不是吗。

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