The British policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies inadvertently contributed to the American Revolution. This was because during the period of salutary neglect, when the British government wasn't enforcing its laws in the colonies, the colonists became accustomed to governing themselves
Aristotle was the first Greek philosopher to analyze how people can use reason to reach logical, provable conclusions.
A "Direct Democracy" is not an authoritarian form of government, since in this type of government the citizens vote directly on the issue affecting the state--meaning that they have complete control over the trajectory of the nation.