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Traits of a representative democracy include the election of representatives by the people to make decisions on their behalf, the protection of individual rights and freedoms through a constitution or legal framework, the separation of powers among different branches of government to prevent abuse of authority, and the presence of regular, free, and fair elections to ensure accountability and responsiveness to the public will.
The traits include free elections and often a separation of powers between the executive and legislative functions.
In the US, Congress and the President are elected separately. In other democracies, the executive, e.g. prime minister, is chosen from the elected legislators.
A government in which people elect delegates to make laws is a Representative Government. A Democracy could be representative or direct.
We elect people to represent us, therefore, it is a representative democracy.
A democracy.
no it was direct.
Your question is about a representative democracy.