representative government

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Definition of representative government in English English dictionary: An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns. Those elected meet to debate and make laws on behalf of the whole community or society, instead of the people voting directly on laws and other debates; A government in which there is an independent legislature composed of representatives elected by voters and endowed given substantial legislative and fiscal powers; The constitutional arrangement prevalent in British North American colonies until the 1840s and 1850s There was an elected House of Assembly, but the executive government was appointed by the Crown, to whom it was responsible; Representative government is where the people elect representatives to the national legislature, but the executive government is not responsible, for its continuance in office, to the support of the legislature The United States has a system of repr esentative government; government made up of elected delegates