Summarize what you read in the excerpts from How the Other Half Lives. Remember to state the most important ideas from the text in your own words. Write at least four sentences. Include at least two specific examples from the text that you read.

In a modern democracy all elected officials serve for a certain number of terms then must retire a high school sophomore and a senior citizen may vote at the polls together a united states senator votes on immigration law on behalf of your mother through indirect ballot all democracies have a two chamber system of representation united states citizens live in a direct democracy