one ocuent under siege中英对照.docx

这里的制定者不知道有几件事情：第二次世界大战。 DNA.的DNA。 Sexting. Sexting。 Airplanes.飞机。 The atom.原子。 Television.电视。 Medicare.医疗保险。 Collateralized debt obligations.债务抵押债券。 The germ theory of disease.疾病的细菌理论。 Miniskirts.迷你裙。 The internal combustion engine.内燃机。 Computers.计算机。 Antibiotics.抗生素。 Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga的。 People on the right and left constantly ask what the framers would say about some event that is happening today.人民的权利和左不断地问什么的制定者会说这是今天发生的一些事件。 What would the framers say about whether the drones over Libya constitute a violation of Article I, Section 8, which gives Congress the power to declare war?的制定者会说，无人驾驶飞机对利比亚是否构成违反第二十我，第8条，这使国会宣战的权力？ Well, since George Washington didnt even dream that man could fly, much less use a global-positioning satellite to aim a missile, its hard to say what he would think.好吧，既然乔治华盛顿没有梦想的人能飞，更使用全球定位卫星，目的是导弹，这是很难说他会想什么。 What would the framers say about whether a tax on people who did not buy health insurance is an abuse of Congresss authority under the commerce clause?什么的制定者说，关于是否对人的税，谁没有购买医疗保险是国会的商业条款下的权力的滥用？ Well, since James Madison did not know what health insurance was and doctors back then still used leeches, its difficult to know what he would say. ，自詹姆斯麦迪逊不知道什么医疗保险和医生当时仍在使用的水蛭，它很难知道他会说什么。 And what would Thomas Jefferson, a man who owned slaves and is believed to have fathered children with at least one of them, think about a half-white, half-black American President born in Hawaii (a state that did not exist)?什么托马斯杰斐逊，谁拥有被认为是父亲的孩子，其中至少有一个奴隶和一个男人，想想一个半白，半黑出生在夏威夷（一个国家不存在）的美国总统吗？ Again, hard to say. (See the 10 amendments come to life in video.)同样，很难说。 （见10在视频生命的修订。 ） The framers were not gods and were not infallible.的制定者，不是神，是不可能不犯错。 Yes, they gave us, and the world, a blueprint for the protection of democratic freedoms — freedom of speech, assembly, religion — but they also gave us the idea that a black person was three-fifths of a human being, that women were not allowed to vote and that South Dakota should have the same number of Senators