People go to free and fair elections,

人们进行自由和公正的选举
And then they elect leaders.

他们选举出领袖
And then they follow those elected to office this way.

他们追随以这种方式当选的公职人员
Then power is legitimate.

那么权力就是合法的
But I think Weber wants to have a broader notion of legitimacy.

但韦伯想定义更广义的合法性概念
Because free and fair elections, operating with universal suffrage,

因为普选体制下自由公正的选举
go back one-hundred years in human history,

是最近一百年来才出现的
and in some countries it still does not exist.

而在某些国家中这种制度仍不存在
And Weber does not want to describe the last ten minutes of human history

而韦伯并不想用人类历史的后十分钟
for human history's twenty-four hours. Right?

来描述人类历史的全部二十四小时
He wants to offer some conceptual tools

他希望提供一些概念性的工具
to understand the whole twenty-four hours.

以了解全部二十四小时的状况