Representative Democracy in the UK

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Representative Democracy Questions.

1) Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate vote on who they want to run parliament. This is done by each party leader persuading the electorate to vote for them by presenting their manifesto, and based on that leaders likability by the electorate.

                                        This changes every four years, by holding a new vote, and allows other parties to step up and potentially be elected by the people.

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2) Representative democracy is the only practical form of democracy the UK has to offer. This is due to the vast amount of people in the country. Having an elected leader takes the burden of decision making off the electorate and onto the elected leader, this allows the people to continue their lives and entrust parliament with the general welfare of the country. This is factual, imagine there are sixty million people all trying to get their views to be recognized, it is unpractical for any other form of democracy to be in place, e.g direct democracy.

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