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When a [[budget]] or [[law]] needs to be passed, then the idea goes to the people. Governments of modern countries rarely make laws this way.
== Costs and benefits of direct democracy ==
==References==▼
[[Interest group]]s would have to change the minds of all people, not just a few representatives. [[Tax]]es could not be raised without the permission of the people. The few would not rule the many and the [[government]] would not pay representatives salaries. In [[indirect democracy|indirect]], or [[representative democracy]], citizens elect representatives to make laws on their behalf. This is what most modern countries have today.
Direct democracy makes decisions by [[majority rule]]. Representative democracy was made with the idea that representatives would be responsible for the majority's interests while protecting [[minority rights]]. People like [[James Madison]] believed that direct democracy was bad for [[minority group]]s.
== History ==
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[[Classical Athens]] was a direct democracy. All citizens voted on major decisions of government. But, to be a citizen, you had to be a free, land-owning, native-born man.
==Other pages==▼
[[Switzerland]] has aspects of direct democracy. "Evidence suggests that attendance at assemblies... has always been limited to roughly twenty per cent of the citizenry".<ref>Lucardie, Paul 2014. ''Democratic extremism in theory and practice: All Power to the People'', p. 56</ref> The practice is only used in two [[Cantons of Switzerland|cantons]], [[Appenzell Innerrhoden]] and [[Glarus (canton)|Glarus]].
The [[Federal government of the United States]] does not use direct democracy but the individual states sometimes make laws by [[referendum]]. Some [[New England town]]<nowiki/>s govern themselves by a town meeting.
*[[Democracy]]
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[[Category:Forms of government]]▼
[[Category:Anarchism]]
▲[[en:Direct democracy]]
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