The conceptual certainty regarding the meaning of representative democracy has special importance in conditions of formation on the post-Soviet space of a real constitutionalism. The most important substantive aspects of the representative democracy are analyzed in the article on the basis of the extensive practice of the Russian constitutional justice review. The representative democracy is considered as the constitutional value, goal, principle, organized form of the grass-roots democracy, characteristic of the constitutional regime, as well as sphere of the individual’s constitutional status realization.