Democracy?

Democracy is defined as a system in which each citizen has their own say in the government. Now while this may be effective in small societies, with much smaller populations, I do not believe that a large population could pull this off. There's really no good, or effective way, rather, for everyone's opinions to be treated equally and without bias. This would only work in smaller populations because while there are opinions of a full society to be dealt with, it would not be so overwhelming that a rule could not be held with democracy. As discussed in class, we in America live in a republic, which is much easier for larger populations; elected representatives can be much smaller in number and still (sort of ) represent a smaller section of a whole population.