Take the example of Switzerland, which is considered as one of the best democracies in the world. If fifty thousand people signed a demand for change in legislation then the government has to put forth a bill in the parliament. But if one hundred thousand people send in a signed demand for change in the legislation then the government has to put forth a bill for amending the constitution. The people have direct control over the constitution and its process of creating the same.
But in our country if fifty thousand people send in a signed demand for any thing to the government, they probably will not even get an acknowledgement slip from the government that their demand is received.
There are many other examples that abound showing the direct control of people over the government and the establishment. But in our country the established system reduces the people as helpless spectators who have no control over the establishment.
There is a crying need, therefore, to bring in the change that empowers the people to exercise their fundamental right and be a free citizen in a democratic set up.
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