Presents an original contribution built on a prize-winning article Uniquely connects intergenerational justice studies with normative (i.e., related to legitimacy issues) democratic theory Introduces a novel time perception that promotes the long term without falling into the legitimacy traps usually faced by non-overlapping future proposals of democratic inclusion Provides the first significant future-oriented development of the so-called constructivist turn in democratic representation Makes several new contributions to the literature on futures studies: the notion of objective interests in the future, the temporal franchise, the theorising of accountability in cross-temporal democratic environments, and the Multitemporal Public Consumption Approach for evaluating and guiding liberal democracies' public spending.