Types of Government by Christopher Thompson

Democracy

maniacking22 — 2015-10-05 14:58:22 UTC

-Citizens have the power to rule.

-Ancient Athens

Republic

maniacking22 — 2015-10-05 15:02:45 UTC

-Representative Democracy (Citizens vote on representatives to make laws for them)

-Zambia

Constitutional Monarchy

maniacking22 — 2015-10-05 15:02:56 UTC

-Has a King or Queen with power limited by a constitution, and an elected parliment.

-United Kingdom

Monarchy

maniacking22 — 2015-10-05 15:03:04 UTC

-Power is passed down in a family and the king or queen has unrestricted power.

-Saudi Arabia

Dictatorship

smellydeadskunk — 2015-10-05 15:07:36 UTC

- Any single leader or group of leaders that has absolute power over the people.

- North Korea

Level 3 Question

maniacking22 — 2015-10-07 14:27:21 UTC

Authoritarian governments give little to no power or freedoms to citizens. Authoritarianism gives absolute power to a single group or person who rules over the citizens, while democratic governments give nearly all the power to the citizens to rule themselves, whether it be directly, or through representatives.

Level 4 Question

smellydeadskunk — 2015-10-07 14:28:19 UTC

The most common kind of government in the modern world is the Democratic government, in the forms of Representative democracy and constitutional monarchies. I think this is because people wanted power, instead of a single person who could do anything they wanted. Some examples of where this shows are the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and more recently, the Egyptian Revolution