Republic
A democratic government in its pure form is where the people directly make the decisions, and in turn gives people more freedom. No government at all is essentially the freest.
Because they do!
This is a democracy.
A pure democracy has the people themselves making decisions by majority vote. When representatives of those people are used instead of the people themselves, it is a republican form of government.
The people in the government are elected to make decisions for the citizens, so they make decisions about many issues.
Indirect democracy
There is no real power by democratic people. While they have real "power" to elect and collectively make decisions, the power roots from the decisions themselves and those who are elected to make decisions. Democracy is the weakest form of government.
Aristotle believed a democracy was the best form of government ruled by the middle class. Plato did not believe average people were intelligent enough to make decisions about government.
DEMOCRACY
This is called a democracy.
Democracy (democratic)
The Greeks called this form of government a democracy.