<P> The American Revolution led to the creation of a new Constitution of the United States in 1787 . with a national legislature based partly on direct elections of representatives every two years , and thus responsible to the electorate for continuance in office . Senators were not directly elected by the people until the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 . Women , men who owned no property , and blacks , and others not originally given voting rights in most states eventually gained the vote through changes in state and federal law in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries . Until it was repealed by the Fourteenth Amendment following the Civil War , the Three - Fifths Compromise gave a disproportionate representation of slave states in the House of Representatives relative to the voters in free states , </P>
<P> The American Revolution led to the creation of a new Constitution of the United States in 1787 . with a national legislature based partly on direct elections of representatives every two years , and thus responsible to the electorate for continuance in office . Senators were not directly elected by the people until the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 . Women , men who owned no property , and blacks , and others not originally given voting rights in most states eventually gained the vote through changes in state and federal law in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries . Until it was repealed by the Fourteenth Amendment following the Civil War , the Three - Fifths Compromise gave a disproportionate representation of slave states in the House of Representatives relative to the voters in free states , </P>
when did the us become a representative democracy
when did the us become a representative democracy
1787
1787