The correct answer is C) allow citizens to vote in elections.
Direct democracy is similar to a representative democracy because both forms of government allow citizens to vote in elections.
In a direct democracy, people vote or decide directly on initiatives concerning politics and the economy. In a representative democracy, people vote to elect their representatives in government. And these representatives create laws in Congress and represent the interests of the people who voted for them.
The point of the event was to decide how America was going to be governed. So even the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans.