Who Is A Representative Representative Democracy?

The term "democracy" first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought in the city-state of Athens during the classical antiquity. Led by Cleisthenes, Athenians established what is generally held as the first democracy in 508–507 BC. Cleisthenes is referred to as “the father of Athenian democracy” (Wikipedia).
From around the 10th century, democracy entered a second historical phase whose centre of gravity was Europe. After some facts such as the rebirth of towns, the rise of the first parliaments, and the conflicts unleashed by self-governing councils and religious disagreement within the Christian Church, democracy came to be understood as representative democracy. During the 18th century, the notion of a representative
People have been ambivalent about the real meaning of the democracy and about who was entitled to represent whom and what had to be done when representatives disregarded those whom they were supposed to represent. But there was the belief that good government was government by representatives. Representative democracy supported the freedom to express one’s opinion which was not only among the represented themselves, but also between representatives and those whom they are supposed to represent (John Keane, 2009). It was said to introduce competition for power that in turn people who were elected representatives were able to try their political competence before others. The earliest champions of representative democracy represented practical expression of a simple reality: it wasn’t possible for all of the people to be involved all of the time, even if they were so preoccupied in the business of government. According to this expression, people must entrust the task of government to representatives who are chosen at regular elections and not to those who are chosen more infrequently (Sonia Alonso, John Keane, Wolfgang Merkel,