Question

While direct democracy and representative democracy are both forms of rule ‘by the people’, representative democracy also involves which of the following?

Select one:

Answer 1

the election of lawmakers to legislate on the people's behalf

Step-by-step explanation:

In a direct democracy, The people can directly vote for the type of legislations that should be passed. They do not need anyone to do it on their behalf.

In representative democracy, people cannot directly cote for the legislations.

The people only have the power to vote for the legislators that held the power to create the laws/legislations. Those legislators will act on the behalf of the people. Currently, representative democracy is the most popular system of government and implemented in most existing countries today.