ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that this is "the" theory of political science, as it certainly is the professed point of view of most criticisms of government and of the theoretical statement of most schemes of reform which do not get into too close contact with immediate application. Certainly when the presidential electoral system of the Constitution was overthrown in this country there was not a decrease but an increase in representative government and in democracy, whichever one of these vague terms one uses for the moment. In governments like that of the United States the people shows the manifold interests gaming representation through many thousands of officials in varying degrees of success, beating some officials down now into delegate activity, intrusting representative activity to other officials at times in high degree. This structural arrangement of government is that which constitutes representative government, or democracy, whichever term is used.
