In an indirect democracy, major laws and rules are made by elected representatives. This is because an indirect democracy is essentially a representative democracy. Elected officials represent the people in a representative democracy (indirect democracy), this means that they also make the major laws and rules.
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
