Political 'representation' nonetheless is the vehicle that enabled the re-introduction of "democracy" into the modern, practical political vernacular. The resulting liberal democracy does not directly descend from the ancient Athenian democracy. Between the eras virtually nothing existed that approached "democracy" as an actual or named political form and when it again became a focus of politics and theory, it was wedded to representation - so that what we call a democracy is, in fact, a distinctive kind of democracy, "a representative democracy". While elections and popular pressure surely have political impact, the actions of representative are the primary, official mechanism for translating democratic citizenship democratic society. But when one imagines the idea of representation' these days, its association with ethics or goodness does not spring to mind. It is an impersonal process, after all- a mechanical method by which one entity stands for or re-presents another, politically required by the need to channel the judgements of millions of citizens into the legally authoritative hands of a small number of public representatives, or even the sentiments of thousands into the leadership of single person.
According to the passage actions of political representatives' manifest
