3. What is the difference between a representative
democracy and a direct democracy?

In a representative democracy people vote for other people that they agree with.  The United States is a representative democracy. A direct democracy is where citizens vote directly on topics.

Democracy is a form of government whose meaning refers to the idea of government by the people (or the citizen). Born in ancient Greece, democracy merges with the history of philosophy.

Democracy would be the political form according to which every citizen has the right to express his opinion in a public debate and, when necessary, to vote for the decision to determine the subject. This would be the form of direct democracy.

In a direct democracy, citizens vote and express their opinion without intermediaries. However, it is a model applicable only to small populations and territories. For this reason, most democratic governments use a form of indirect democracy, representative democracy, in which political decisions are not made directly by citizens, but by representatives elected by them. Only representatives have the right to vote and it depends on the laws of each democratic country.

i believe the answer is:

-   william jennings bryan is a democrat while mckinley was a republican

at that time, the segment of population that choose for democratic party were the voters with low economic background and vice versa

- william jennings has support of populists and wants to have inflation to farmers while mckinley has support of bankers and businessmen , doesn't want inflation

the fixed value of gold make the large business able to stack up their gold without   being worried that it would devaluated.

- william jennings supported the silver standard while mckinley supported the gold standard

according to jenning, using other metal beside gold could the poor people to have more purchasing power and them advance in the society.

the  wilmot proviso  was designed to eliminate  slavery  within the  landacquired as a result of the mexican war (1846-48). fearing the addition of a pro-slave territory, pennsylvania congressman david  wilmot proposedhis amendment to the bill.