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"The United States Is a Direct Democracy"

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Treating the United States as a direct democracy mistakes the Soc 1505 republic for a structure that votes on every law itself.

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A citizen expecting to personally vote on a tax bill is thinking of a structure the federal system was never built to provide.

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Some states use direct referenda; that does not make the federal system itself a direct democracy.

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