17—19世纪,资本主义政治制度即资产阶级代议制先后在英美法德等国确立,其核心是由选举产生的代表组成议会来行使国家权力。它实际上是一种间接民主,最初是中世纪欧洲君主和贵族的发明,到了近代以后,才逐渐实现了与民主制度的结合。 From the 17th to the 19th and the 19th centuries, the political system of capitalism, that is, the representative system of the capitalist class, was successively established in Britain, the United States, France and Germany and other countries. The core of the capitalist political system is the formation of a parliament by elected representatives to exercise state power. It is actually an indirect democracy, originally invented by the medieval European monarchs and aristocrats. Only after the modern era did it gradually merge with the democratic system.