What is it called when the government involves the citizens voting

Republican government, which is a political theory of representative government, based on the principle of popular sovereignty, with an emphasis on liberty and civic virtue. Influential in eighteenth century American political thought, it stood as an alternative to monarchical rule.

john locke is most associated with the idea of consent of the governed which is the idea that the government is only valid if it has the consent of the people who are being governed.

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