如果仅仅扫了一眼书名,恰巧你又对民主话题感兴趣,那你掏出私帑买下这本书,并且仔细阅读和有所思考后,心情可能会挺复杂。当然,你也可能不复杂,那大多因为你浸入这本书太深了,还没有拔出思想的脚,去独立地琢磨琢磨。所谓琢磨,重点应在于,1787年夏,美国费城,一场原本只为修补旧条例而召开的联邦大会,结果演变成制定出一部闻所未闻的《宪法》。这便是作者和一些读者所理解的“民主的奇迹”。 If you just glance at the title of a book, and you happen to be interested in the subject of democratization, you may find it very complicated after you take it out and buy it, and after reading and thinking about it carefully. Of course, you may not be complicated, mostly because you are immersed in the book too deep, not pulled out the foot of thought, to ponder independently thought. The so-called pondering should focus on the fact that in the summer of 1787, Philadelphia, the United States General Assembly that had only been held to fix the old ordinance, evolved into the formulation of an unheard-of-constitution. This is the “miracle of democracy” understood by the author and some readers.