Not coincidentally, among big powers it was the British who most curtailed the absolute rule of their monarch and who established the soundest base for financing a modern state.

• 在所有的强国中，英国是最能约束其绝对皇权的国家，也是为国家现代化的资金需求建立了绝好后盾的国家，而这一切绝非巧合。