Which statement best describes a difference between a democracy and a republic?
Answer - A) citizens in a democracy can ether directly or indirectly influence the government, while citizens in a republic can only indirectly influence government through elected officials
Democracy - "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."
Republic - "a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch."
The compromise counted three out of every five slaves as people, giving the Southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes. The Southerners were using their slaves to their advantage politically.
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The defining right of a representative democracy is the right to vote. A representative democracy is made up a system whereby citizens can vote for representatives to govern on their behalf.
Because one is when if you do something bad then you get killed or serously hurt and the other are just laws that you have to fallow
