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What is a direct democracy? (Site 1)

Direct democracy can be seen as a kind of system where citizens directly discuss and vote on the main issues of interest. This kind of democracy arose in Ancient Greece, where popular assemblies assembled the population of democratic city-states in the Agora (square), where laws and key decisions were discussed and resolved. Remember that in the Greek way, the exercise of political opinion was restricted to a specific portion of the population.