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   Direct democracy

   noun

   • 1. a form of government in which policies and laws are decided by a majority of all those eligible rather than by a body of elected representatives: "direct democracy gives all people the right to participate"
   • ▪ a state governed under a system of direct democracy: "the founders did not establish a direct democracy but a republic"

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