I contend that the ends of representation must be connected with the ends of the regime in order to determine whether a regime is, in the words of Pitkin, providing substantive representation. This examination begins by challenging Hanna Pitkin’s long-standing dismissal of Hobbes’s theory of representation and the methodology by which she comes to define the ends of political representation. This dissertation examines the representational theory of James Madison – first in the context of the literature on representation more generally, then in the context of Madison’s larger project of securing a free and stable republican government in a democratic society, and lastly in the context of the Supreme Court’s representational jurisprudence.
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