There's no such thing as a "direct democracy and representative democracy". There's democracy and there's republicanism. Democracy is the people electing on th

There's no such thing as a "direct democracy and representative democracy". There's democracy and there's republicanism. Democracy is the people electing on the issues. It wasn't conceived with universal vote in mind, in fact, it was very elitist in nature. Republicanism is the people electing representatives to weigh the pros and cons of each choice for them. In practice it is much closer to our current system, its flaws included.