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We don't really have direct democracies in most cases. If we did, the laws would be created by the people. But we do have democratic republics. The laws are created by elected representatives and then, depending on the level, signed into being by the executive, i.e. governor or President. In a monarchy you often have the monarch working with some kind of elected body these days, so that would be similar to elected representatives creating the law and then approval at the executive level. But in a true monarchy, I suppose just the monarch. The same would be the case in a dictatorship, where the executive would make the laws, often with the assistance of a closed group of powerful individuals. Frequently the military will have some involvement. In some systems, you have administrative agencies created that can then create rules which must be obeyed, though those agencies can be controlled by the other involved bodies which actually pass the laws as opposed to create rules. Example, the FTC, FDA, NLRB in the US.
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