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It depends on your way of thinking. The Framers created a representative democracy because they were fearful of direct democracy. They were afraid that people would take their power away. In some cases, it would be better to have a representative democracy than a direct democracy and vice versa. Never the less, the Framers were afraid of what would happen if they did have a direct democracy.
The speaker of the house is in front of the house of representatives. She usually does not preside over the debates personally, instead she delegates this function to another member of the majority party´s chamber. In addition to presiding over the chamber, she has administrative and procedural functions and remains a Representative of his own district.
It occupies second place in the line of presidential succession, after vice presidency of the United States, which also assumes <em>ex officio </em>the presidency <em>pro tempore </em>of the senate. It is a similar charge to the election of a prime minister in a parliamentary regime.
