I'm really sorry......T.T please help me....... <br/><br/><br/> 1. 'The Constitution is or was a moderate despotism, tempered by a Chamber that might or might not be elected' <br/><br/>The 'might or might not be elected' part is especially mysterious to me..... <br/><br/><br/> 2.'it sufficed, I say, for our Minister to advance any opinion to have it instantly contradicted by the French diplomatist.' <br/><br/>The whole sentence is just lost to me. <br/><br/><br/> 3. 'The Princess was married by proxy, at her father's residence, by the Count de Schlusselback.' <br/><br/>I don't understand this sentence.