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Answer the following question.
What are the different ways of having people’s participation in Democracy?
Solution
In a democracy, people participate in the government through the following means:
- If the representative is not functioning properly, he can be called back with the written request of a specific number of votes, which is called recall.
- Though lawmaking is the responsibility of the legislature, citizens also have the right to purpose a law that must be considered by a legislature. This is called initiative.
- In order to know public opinion on important public issues, people can be included in the decision-making process. This called referendum.
- Lastly, the method of the plebiscite is adopted to get the approval of citizens on the law passed by the legislature.
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