The point of being a representative is to get the pacifying benefits of democracy without the aristocracy having to give up too much power or stray too far from a comfy oligarchic form.
It is inherently anti democratic. That was always the point.
The point of being a representative is to get the pacifying benefits of democracy without the aristocracy having to give up too much power or stray too far from a comfy oligarchic form.
It is inherently anti democratic. That was always the point.