Many revolutions took a long time European countries lost land and <span>Revolutionaries became heroes in their countries.
The revolutions were very bloody and lasted long. The revolutionaries became heroes and are still mostly celebrated today. Many countries adopt the important dates in the revolution as independence days or nationality days.</span>
The President has a very important power to appoint judges, justices, and cabinet-level officials. However, the Constitution requires that this power be checked through the Legislative branch or the two houses of Congress. It’s the Congress who keeps an eye on the President’s decision and can decide, which is usually in favor of the majority.
Direct democracy can be seen as a kind of system where citizens directly discuss and vote on the main issues of interest. This kind of democracy arose in Ancient Greece, where popular assemblies assembled the population of democratic city-states in the Agora (square), where laws and key decisions were discussed and resolved. Remember that in the Greek way, the exercise of political opinion was restricted to a specific portion of the population.