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A procedure whereby a proposed legislation is referred to the electorates for settlement by their direct votes is called :  

A. Referendum

B. Repatriation

C. Representative democracy

D. Republic

Answer: Option A

Solution(By Examveda Team)

Referendum: A public vote with possibly legally binding consequences.

Repatriation: The sending back of someone to his country of origin such as an illegal immigrant or prisoner of war.

Representative democracy: In modern times what is commonly know as a democracy, even though the people do not directly vote on actual issues and laws but surrender that right to their duly elected representatives.

Republic: Defined by some sources as simply a democracy, but otherwise loosely described as a form of government where, in word or deed, rule is constrained by institutional frameworks and is not by the selected few. Not an oligarchy but not necessarily a democracy. The Roman Republic was the original precedent for republicanism. Apartheid South Africa, by this definition, was a republic.


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