The centerpiece of Republican Democracy is the idea of political representation the idea that the people elect representatives that will work on their behalf to fulfill the duties of government. The institutions and processes by which the American people elect their representatives vary in the degree to which there are more democratic (something like ballot initiatives for legislation) or more republican (the appointment of Supreme Court justices by the President), with a system like the Electoral college falling somewhere in between. No matter how representatives are selected the idea, at least in theory, is that they will represent the people who elected them. The goal for this paper is to discuss and evaluate political representation in the U.S. when it comes to U.S. Foreign Policy.
Define political representation and discuss what it means in theory for the United States.
