Ideally the idea of representative government is that the legislators would have the time to study the issues before voting on them. Direct democracy is proble

Ideally the idea of representative government is that the legislators would have the time to study the issues before voting on them. Direct democracy is problematic because most people can't be bothered to read up on the issues, or even bother to vote in most cases. It would just give way too much power to lunatics with too much free time.