There is a commonly held narrative about constitutional forms in the Western political and philosophical tra­ dition. The story is schematically as follows: Initially Aristotle and other ancient philosophers, including, in­ fluentially, Polybius, propounded the theory of the three constitutional forms—monarchy, aristocracy, and de­ mocracy. This model assumes a revolution or circularity between the three forms.1 Later, around the seventeenth century, a radical transformation occurs, and political representation assumes center stage. In the contractarian tradition, the constitution is defined by how constituted power represents the people. This story, further, unfolds as a kind of narrative of progress or Bildungsroman. Representation ultimately and this may be understood genetically or historically leads to forms of representative democracy characterized by a strong link between constitutional and state forms.