Briefly exlain the differnce beetween the direct democracythe athenians had and the reprensentative democracy we have in th untided statewes

Direct democracy requires the psychical presence of all voter and a universal voting system to choose the representatives in the democracy. Ancient Athens is an example of direct democracy, where any ordinary citizen could propose a bill to the assembly of citizens and the vote would be taken by simple majority. There were no recognizable political parties in Athens and voting for political representatives was a small part of political activity. Switzerland has the direct democracy today; they can propose laws and vote yearly as a whole in Referendums about an average of 10 laws. All the other work is done by representatives.

United States has the presidential democracy. It was not created to be democratic form of government, but a Republican form of government. The house of representatives is the closest thing to democracy in the founders America because it is elected by the people who own land and pay taxes and to represent their interest.