the tyranny of the majority class.

过分暴政的局面
Aristotle's proposal for a mixture of oligarchy and democracy

亚里士多德提议的寡头政治与
seems, in many ways, to anticipate,

民主政治混合制在两千年前似乎
2,000 years before the fact, Madison's call for a government

就预料到这个事实麦迪逊提倡
where powers must be separated and where

政府一定要分权
he says in , ambition must be made to counteract

他在,《联邦主义文集》第51期中提及
ambition in order to avoid, in other words,

野心必须被阻碍换句话说就是
the extremes of both tyranny and civil war.

为了极端的局面例如专政与内战
The inevitable conclusion that I reach and I believe any sensible

我必然得到一个结论应该说每一个
reader of Aristotle would reach is that Aristotle,

敏感的亚里士多德读者都会得到
in fact, discovered the American Constitution 1,500 or 2,000 years

就是在美国宪法确立之前的一千五百年到
before it was written.

两千年之前亚里士多德已经想到了