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The large variety of diverse and competing interests subject to Federal control, persistently seeking the recognition of their claims,
聯邦控制下的眾多相互競爭的利益集團，盡管不斷尋求對其主張的承認，
need give us no fear that "the greatest good to the greatest number" will fail to be accomplished if in the halls of national legislation that spirit of amity and mutual concession shall prevail in which the Constitution had its birth.
但是，只要國家立法機構的大廳中仍激蕩著促成憲法誕生的和睦互讓精神，我們就不必擔心“為大多數人謀取最大幸福”的目標不能實現。
If this involves the surrender or postponement of private interests and the abandonment of local advantages,
如果這樣導致了取消或延緩某些私人利益，或者放棄了某些地方權益，
compensation will be found in the assurance that the common interest is subserved and the general welfare advanced.
那么其補償必定是，公眾的利益和福利得到了保證或促進。
In the discharge of my official duty I shall endeavor to be guided by a just and unstrained construction of the Constitution,
在我任職期間，我將嚴格遵循對憲法的公正而不加歪曲的解釋，
a careful observance of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people,
密切注意憲法規定的聯邦權力、州權和人民所保留權力的界限，
and by a cautious appreciation of those functions which by the Constitution and laws have been especially assigned to the executive branch of the Government.
并且謹慎對待由憲法和法律專門賦予政府行政部門的職能。
But he who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen
今天在此宣誓堅持、維護和捍衛美利堅共和國憲法的這個人，承擔了一項莊嚴的義
on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, and everywhere should share with him.
而每一個勞作于農場、車間、繁忙的貿易市場以及各個地方的愛國公民，都應與我共同分擔責任。
The Constitution which prescribes his oath, my countrymen, is yours;
同胞們，規定總統誓詞的憲法屬于你們；
the Government you have chosen him to administer for a time is yours; the suffrage which executes the will of freemen is yours;
推選我暫時管理的政府屬于你們；執行自由人意愿的選舉權屬于你們；
the laws and the entire scheme of our civil rule, from the town meeting to the State capitals and the national capital, is yours.
法律和鄉鎮會議、州首府到國家首都的一整套民事管理制度也屬于你們。
Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust. Nor is this all.
每一位投票者和總統雖然屬于不同的范疇，卻生活在同一部憲法之下，承擔著一種公共責任。
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.
不僅如此，每個公民都有義務警惕地注視、嚴密地考察其公仆們，對其忠誠與能力給予公正而合理的評價。
Thus is the people's will impressed upon the whole framework of our civil polity municipal, State, and Federal;
通過這些途徑，民眾的意志即影響了國內的政治體制，包括地方、各州和聯邦的體制；
and this is the price of our liberty and the inspiration of our faith in the Republic.
這便是自由的價值，是對我們信仰共和制的鼓舞。
It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economically administered,
政府公職人員應按廉潔治理政府的切實需要嚴格限制開支，
because this bounds the right of the Government to exact tribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.
因為這與政府對勞工收入或公民財產的征稅有關，而且政府部門的奢華勢必導致群眾中的浪費之風。
