The goal of this Symposium Essay is to sketch out very generally the different options that constitution designers have at their disposal in deciding where to locate national power and the central implications of each of these options for how representative the national government of an emerging democratic regime is likely to be. The goal is not to endorse one option as superior in all contexts, but simply to provide a roadmap of the paths that can be taken and the implications of each of these paths for the central democratic goal of generating a representative national government.
