This means, secondly, that first elections, and perhaps elections more generally, are not themselves a sufficient guarantee of liberty. As the German constitutional court judge Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde famously put it, democracies cannot create the conditions of their survival and success.
其次，这就意味着首次选举，甚至更广泛意义上的选举，也许本身都不足以保证自由。德国宪法法院法官恩斯特·沃尔夫冈·博肯福德（Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde）有一句名言，民主无法创造自身生存和繁荣的必要条件。