Sociology / Unit 9 Soc 1506 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The United States Is a Direct Democracy"
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The idea
Treating the United States as a direct democracy mistakes the Soc 1505 republic for a structure that votes on every law itself.
In practice
A citizen expecting to personally vote on a tax bill is thinking of a structure the federal system was never built to provide.
Where people slip
Some states use direct referenda; that does not make the federal system itself a direct democracy.
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