Download or read book The Principles of Representative Government written by Bernard Manin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the debates which led up to the new constitution of the United States, for the first time, a new form of republic was imagined and elaborated, in deliberate contrast to the experiences of ancient republics from Athens to Renaissance Italy. The balance between aristocratic and democratic components within this novel state form was not, as has been widely supposed, a consequence of a deliberate mystification of its real workings; it was a rationally planned aspect of its basic structure.