Who does a legislator represent?

Question

Who does a legislator represent?
just wondering
Thank you

Answer 1

It depends on the legislator.
Some represent parties.
Some represent the people who elected them.
Some represent special interest groups.
Some represent the Constitution.
Some represent socialism, communism, capitalism, individualism, objectivism, religion, etc.

The best representatives are those that represent what they think to be moral and correct, REGARDLESS OF EVERYTHING METIONED ABOVE.

The reason that our founding fathers set up our Constitution to be a representative democracy is because the average person is not fit to govern the entire country. Most people will not agree with me, but it is true. The people who disagree are the same ones that led to the evolution of Democracy from direct Democracies to what we have today, Republics.

The Direct Democracy in ancient Greece was the reason that it fell. The next major Empire, the Romans, employed the first Republic, and were far superior.

Representative Democracies were created to provide safeguards to the rule of the common man.

It is a fact that in any society, 51% are less sensible than the other 49%. Republics (representative democracies) aim to ensure that the ignorant majority does not have say over the intelligent minority.

"As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government (that of a Republic) presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another."
-James Madison "The Federalist Papers"

EDIT to all previous answerers.

If the founding fathers wanted to have representatives that based their votes solely on the will of the electorate, they would have created a direct democracy, and not even used representatives.

Everyone who answered before me, unfortunately, has a somewhat naive understanding of Democracy.

"Democracy is just two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner."
-Benjamin Franklin

Answer 2

A legislator represents a population of people, his or her constituents. The people are in the same region, usually a state or other boundary line like a county, city, etc. The legislator is elected as the representative of those people. He or she is supposed to listen to the people of that region and vote on decisions based upon the people's views.

Answer 3

The people (preferably citizens) who live in the district that elected him.

Answer 4

The people living in the district where she was elected.