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What are the two major forms of democratic government system?

There two major forms for the entire democratic system. It is also the types of liberal democracy where the public has the supreme power to create and demolish the government.


Direct democracy


In a direct democracy, people have the ultimate power in the state. The decisions, appointing the officials making rules are being made the public. This type of democracy is found in the case of Switzerland. There are four devices of direct democracy, namely, Referendum, Initiative, Recall and Plebiscite


Indirect or representative democracy


Indirect democracy is the form of democracy in which the public does not directly use the authority of governance but uses the power through a representative in which all the public or the majority of the public uses the power of government through their representative whom they chose from time to time.


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