WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is representative democracy?
A
When one person makes all of the government’s decisions.
B
When people vote for representatives to represent them. The people give their power to the people they elect to make decisions for them.
C
When a group of people have all the power to make decisions for the people living under the government.
D
When a king or queen rules.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In a democracy it is the people who give the government this power. They do this through elections in which they vote for particular persons and elect them. Once elected, these persons form the government. In a democracy the government has to explain its actions and defend its decisions to the people.

Detailed explanation-2: -The voters who live in an area elect one representative. For Lok Sabha elections, India is divided into 543 constituencies. The representative elected from each constituency is called a Member of Parliament or an MP.

Detailed explanation-3: -Democratic government is referred to as representative democracies as in representative democracies people choose their representatives through an election process. Q. Q. is referred as opening up of the functioning of government and its decisions to citizens.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which officials must be elected for any government to be called a Democracy? The officials who have the majority of the votes and elected by the people can run a democratic government.

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