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I think what happens is that in our democracy, republican form of democracy, actually it's quite flexible. When you look at this year's election, November 7, there are 200 statewide ballot measures.

A democracy is a system where the power to make policy comes directly or indirectly from the people. We, in the U.S., we're not a direct democracy — which is like where everybody votes on every ...

Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. Let’s say we have a softball team; nine ...

The announcement sets up perhaps the most explosive special session in recent history over limits to both representative and direct democracy.