There are three major democratic systems based on the relationship of the people to the legislative or policy-making process.in the simplest form, called direct democracy or pure democracy, the people act as their own legislature. You can recall that jean Jacques Rousseau favored this kind of government system. He argued that no one could truly represent another person's will.
This form of democracy has been used by several societies. Ancient Athens practiced direct democracy, and even today one can find that in some Swiss cantons and in some new England town meetings, before the advent of modern technology, direct democracy was not possible in an area larger than a “a city-state" therefore, it has not been very popular. Today, however, it is possible for a society, using computers, television, and the telephone, to govern itself in much more direct way than was possible in the past.