If you're talking about the New Deal, it was effective because it created <span>short-term relief for the people and also had an idea for what he wanted to do in the future that gave people a insight and made Roosevelt more reliable.</span>
The movement that influenced the Constitution's architects was the Enlightenment
They were treated terribly often beaten and raped as well as tortured and murdered.
Switzerland is a rare example of a country with instruments of direct democracy (at the levels of the municipalities, cantons, and federal state). Citizens have more power than in a representative democracy.