In days of yore, the citizen free-holder in various lands thought of his soverign or aristocrat as being more worthy of representing him because he distrusted (rightly in most cases) the ability, constancy or independence of motive of his peers. His "participation" in the particapatory aspects of his age was in support of those so vested.
In our modern "particapatory" representation we have devolved from Deliberative Representation to a desire for Pliebistitory Delagate, and sometimes further, to desires to personally attend to every issue with the whim of the moment and the command of the democratic demogogue.
For me, this is the point. The Constitution has been turned on its head; instead of providing a limitation on the power of government to regulate the lives of the citizens, it has now been twisted to limit the freedom of the citizens and to 'grant' unlimited authority to government. And the corrupt judiciary has been part and parcel of the shift.