What seems uncomfortably clear even now is the strength of certain, seemingly uncontrollable processes that tend to shatter all hopes for constitutional development in the new nations and to undermine the republican institutions in the old.

甚至在目前是明显，却也令人不愉快的是，某些是乎无法控制的过程之力量正要摧毁在新国家内建立宪法的一切希望，并破坏旧国家内的共和体制。