aristocracy (in the form of senate for life) and monarchy (in the form of the consuls) and would inspire many political thinkers over the centuries (see mixed government)

but the need of convoking people at large made it impractical for large states.

Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives; as opposed to direct democracy, a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly. A European

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