direct democracy in the US

• what is a ballot initiative?

  a proposal that is placed on the ballot for voters to vote on. can be to get a law passed
• what is a recall election?

  a vote to recall a state official
• what was the most recent recall of a state official?

  The last governor to face recall, and only the second in US history, to

  be successfully removed, was Gray Davis for California and replaced

  by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• example of a referendum in the US

  In 2018, one example was in Alabama where 78% of voters supported

  an amendment to the state constitution allowing the display of the

  Ten Commandments in state courthouses.
• what is a referendum used for?

  to get the public’s opinion on a piece of legislation
• is the majority of democracy in the US direct or indirect?

  indirect
• why did the framers want most of the democracy in the US to be indirect?

  They did not want the will of the general public being put into laws