According to regulation, a child is any living person who doesn't yet have the legal age of consent for just about anything, from voting, to living alone, to working, to anything that revolves around making serious choices. A child cannot vote and cannot work and does not go to jail if they commit a crime unless the crime is so sever that the child is treated as an adult in the court.
A direct democracy is a form of government where the citizens have a direct say in the creation of laws and issues that affect them.
Representative democracy is a form of government where its citizens vote for a representative to represent them in Congress or the Senate
