and habits helped to constitute the democratic regime.

有助于构建民主政体
And this regime-- in this sense the regime

这种意义上的政体
describes the character or tone of a society.

描绘出一个社会的特性和调子
What a society finds most praiseworthy,

社会觉得是最可嘉的
what it looks up to, okay?

最值得尊重的政体理解吗
You can't understand a regime unless you understand, so to speak,

你别想理解一个政体除非了解其主张
what it stands for, what a people stand for,

譬如说它代表什么民族代表什么
what they look up to as well as its, again,

他们敬重什么
its structure of institutions and rights and privileges.

还有其机构权力及福利结构
This raises a further set of questions

这就带出了我们将于本学期
that we will consider over the term.

进一步讨论的一系列问题
How are regimes founded, the founding of regimes?

如何建立政权