When a citizen goes door to door asking for signatures then they will be engaging into a form of democracy called: Initiative. There are two types of processes to submit an initiative: direct and indirect. The first one does not require signatures it goes directly into ballot, the second one requires an specific number of signatures according to the state's law in order to appear in ballot. Therefore, the democracy process described on the question is an Initiative with indirect process.
<h3>The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom, with their respective allies, from June 1812 to February 1815. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theater of the Napoleonic Wars; historians in the United States and Canada see it as a war in its own right.</h3>
As the electorate expanded, the political parties evolved to mobilize the growing mass of voters as the means of political control. Political parties became institutionalized to accomplish this essential task.