How many of you have read Common Sense before?

你们有多少人读过《常识》
A good number of you, not--yeah, some of you.

人挺多我还以为就几个
I love Common Sense. I think it's an amazing piece of writing,

我很爱《常识》我认为那是本杰作
and I think when you read it for this course

而且我认为当你为了这门课程读它时
you'll get a sense of why it had such a huge influence at the time.

你们就会明白为什么当时它有如此大的影响
We're going to read some essays from The Federalist

我们将会读到选自《联邦党人文集》的短文
written by Alexander Hamilton

作者是亚历山大·汉密尔顿
and James Madison and John Jay,

詹姆斯·麦迪逊和约翰·杰伊
but we are not going to read them as--

但我们不会把它们视为
You may have read them before.

你们之前也许读过那些文章
You may have encountered The Federalist essays as the

你们可能碰巧读过《联邦党人文集》
grand source of authority on the Constitution. Right?

并把它视作宪法的权威基石对吧