They want to leave Mr ford's mayor in name only, but no effective legislative power and little budget.

参事们希望只保留市长的头衔，但没有实际的立法权，只有少量的预算。

The Roman Republic was constructed in a way that restricted effective political power to wealthy citizen males, and in its dying years it was controlled by a very small circle of wealthy citizen males.

罗马共和国初建时就将有效政治权利限制在富裕的男性公民之间，在共和国最后时期，国家政治被一小圈富裕男性公民控制。