来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第6集 第6集》
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Let there be popular democracy.实行大众民主 -
If the people who settle Utah want to vote如果犹他州定居的人要投票赞成蓄奴 -
to have slave labor then they vote for it;他们直接投赞成票 -
if they don't, they don't.否则就投反对票 -
Democracy, what could be better?民主投票 这样会好些吗 -
This had the wonderful kind of charm of ambiguity,这真是完美展现了含混的魅力 -
as David Potter once beautifully put it--大卫·波特就曾这样优雅地表达 -
a charm of ambiguity.含混的魅力 -
There's kind of a place there for everybody,似乎人人都有份 -
as long as you trust the democratic process.只要你相信民主程序 -
But if you're going to have that referendum但如果你要举行公投 -
the problem of course always was,那么这个过程的问题总是在于