Answer:
The citizens of the country.
Explanation:
In a direct democracy (an example can be ancient Athens located in present-day Greece), in which all citizens within a certain age can take part in and set up laws & rules that the government would then institute on the people. Effectively, each person has a direct role in the government. However, note that in the Athenian version, women and slaves/servants were not able to vote.
A true direct democracy would allow anybody who was a citizen of the country to vote directly for the laws, agreements with other country, so on and so forth. The US is <em>not</em> an example of direct democracy, because while there are laws that we can vote for and voice our individual opinions, we generally vote for representatives that act as a voice for the majority of the people. So the US is technically not a direct-democracy, rather, an <em>indirect democracy</em>.
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