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Yes, it has a system of government by which political sovereignty is retained by the people and either exercised directly by citizens or through their elected representatives
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No, the American political system is based on a representative democracy, where citizens elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf. Direct democracy involves citizens directly participating in decision-making processes and is not the primary system in the United States.
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Citizens do not vote directly on laws. They elect representatives who do vote directly on laws.
citizens do not directly elect the leader of their country.
direct democracy: a government in which citizens rule directly instead of through representatives.
Referendum- A Procedure in which issues are votedd on directly by the citizens rather than by their Representatives in government.
People elect representatives in a representative democracy. In a direct democracy, such as Athens in the fifth century, B.C., all citizens were directly involved in making legal and political decisions.
No. Direct democracy does not "scale" - that is, it requires the citizens themselves to directly vote on all issues before the government. As such, it cannot work efficiently for places with more than a few thousand citizens, at the very most. The Philippines, like all other modern governments, uses elected representatives to avoid this problem. The Philippines itself is considered a representative democratic republic, specifically a "unitary presidential representative republic", in political science parlance.