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• Referendums

  The purest form of democracy, uncorrupted by the filter of representative democracy. They demonstrate the pure will of the people, as shown in the EU vote. They are a direct expression of popular consent.
• Referendums

  Can help to unite a divided society, as occurred with the decisive result of the 1998 vote on the Belfast Agreement
• Referendums

  Can solve conflicts within the government and the rest of the political system, especially the case with the EU referendums in both 1975 and 2016
• Referendums

  Are particularly useful when the expressed (as opposed to implied) consent of the people is important, so that the decision will be respected, as was very true of the votes on devolution in 1997
• People have access to many sources of information and can use this to make more informed decisions than they could in the past