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CLEP US Government

Category - Dem. Philosophy

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What is the reason most experts do not believe that participatory or direct democracy is a good idea for the United States as a whole?
  1. Citizens of the United States are too stupid to make decisions for themselves.
  2. Only people with law degrees should be able to make decisions regarding the laws that get passed.
  3. Most citizens don’t care enough to pay attention.
  4. Most citizens in the United States are too rich and highly educated to lower themselves to the level of being involved with politics.
  5. There are too many people and too many issues in the United States for the citizens to be directly involved in all of them.
Explanation
Answer: E- Direct democracy (sometimes called participatory democracy) is the idea that the people vote directly for the laws that get passed. While that can work in a small democracy such as ancient Athens, it becomes very difficult when you deal with millions of people and thousands of laws. This is why the United States, and most large democracies, practice representative democracy, where citizens vote for representatives who make the laws on their behalf.
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