See I disagree with you here. Direct Democracy, in this day and age, would destroy our country. The people dont know what they want, and when they do it is often the wrong thing the country needs at the moment. The Founding Fathers knew this, and that is why our government is a Federal Republic. Now I would argue that this has worked fairly well over the past 200 years. Compare this to California (which has the most direct democracy of the states as far as I know) with its initiatives proposed and passed by the people. The initiative system has wrecked their state government with its cap of property taxes and produced confusing and contradictive social legislation.
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