This article analogises political representation to legal interpretation. It then applies the analogy to the hitherto neglected question of what political representation means for deliberative constitutionalism. The upshot is a conception of deliberative constitutionalism that, while uncompromisingly grounded in the reasoned expression of the preferences of a polity's constituents through deliberative democratic institutional innovations, mandates representatives to translate those preferences into general and abstract constitutional law. It thus enhances the deliberative contribution of citizens in the determination of constitutional meaning, while preserving the value of representative institutions.

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政治代表作为解释：对协商立宪主义的贡献

本文将政治代表权与法律解释相类推。然后，将类比应用于迄今为止被忽略的问题，即政治代表对审议立宪主义意味着什么。结果是一种审议性宪政主义的概念，尽管它毫不妥协地基于通过审议性民主制度创新对政党选民的偏爱的合理表达，但授权代表将这些偏爱转化为一般性的抽象宪法。因此，它在确定宪法意义的同时，增强了公民的审议作用，同时又保留了代表机构的价值。