the mere selfish private interests can be vertreten, but the common good or the good of the state must be is not at all close in meaning to darstellen. So, for an English speaker, the way a painting or a painter or a stage actor represents is part of the same concept as the way an agent or an elected legislator represents; for a German speaker it is not. The history of legal, artistic, political, and other representation among German-speaking peoples of course also differs from the corresponding history among English-speaking peoples, but not in a way that correlates simply or neatly with such semantic differences