According to the bible the mouth is the part that defiles the body because when you speak you speak from the heart and the heart can have evil thoughts such as murder, sexual immorality, lying, stealing, and cussing.
Which can be very hurtful to others.
In a direct democracy all the people who have the right to vote vote on a government policy: this would typically be all citizens above certain age. (In the past it could be only men...)
This is the case in the referendums in Switzerland, they vote directly!
It was Peter the Great who was the Russian tsar who supported intellectuals, poets, and playwrights and exchanged letters with Enlightenment philosophers
In the later years of the 19th century, the European nations transitioned from "informal imperialism" — i.e., exercising military influence and economic dominance — to direct rule, bringing about colonial imperialism
