"... it makes a point about the logic at the heart of lawmaking. This logic is
representational: the law claims to express—represent—a pre-legal unity.
Returning to our question about hypostasis, the theory and practice of democracy
are constantly in danger of reifying the people because this danger is rooted in
representation itself. In effect, what seems more obvious than that the people, as
a unity, exists independently of its le ..."