Advantages Of Direct Democracy

Direct democracy is a type of democracy that allows the people of a sovereign state to vote for leaders and legislation without representation. This form of democracy is based on a direct participation from all citizens of this country to decide the path of their nation through elections. One strength of direct democracy is that it gives the voters of the nation a greater sense of efficacy, the ability of a citizen to both understand and influence political events. However, direct democracy does have weaknesses. One weakness is that the majority of the nation has power over all minorities. Minorities have little say and therefore may not have the ability to stop the majority from voting in favor of laws or politicians that are harmful to them. The republican form of government consists of having the citizens of a nation vote for representatives
One reason is that the framers did not trust the ability of the people to make important decisions like a well-informed representative could. There was an ideal of elitism at the and not even every white male was allowed to elect a local official. The framers did not want a population with inadequate education to be making the decisions for their newly formed nation, therefore they adopted the republican form government. The trustee model of congressional representation consists of the congressional representative voting on issues based on his/her own views, whether or not they conflict with the views of his/her constituency. It is called the attitudinal view because they representative acts based on his/her own values. The delegate model of congressional representation consists of the representative voting based on the views of his/her constituency regardless of his/her views. It is called the representational view because the representative implements the values of his/her