https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv en-us 2019-05-02 15:09:40 UTC 2025-10-30 11:28:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F267e.png 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/356249134 When absolute and unrestricted power is in the hands of one powerful person who shares their bloodline with the rulers before them.
They lost power when the aristocrats overthrew the monarchy and took power.]]> 2019-05-02 15:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/356249134 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/356645652 When a group of wealthy and very powerful people rule. Their policies make life easier for the rich and harder for the poor.
They lost power when the poor overthrew the oligarchs with armies.]]> 2019-05-03 15:29:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/356645652 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/356647121 When  ruler who is not a lawful ruler takes power by force. They wold sometimes make life easier for the poor, sometimes be hostile towards aristocrats, but sometimes they rule harshly and become cruel.
They lost power when people drove the tyrants out of power.]]> 2019-05-03 15:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/356647121 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/356652357 When the power is held with the people\citizens who help make laws.
At the time most people believed that democracy was a bad idea because powerful people can cause citizens to make wrong decisions and important decisions can be easily changed so most went back to other kinds of government.]]> 2019-05-03 15:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/356652357 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357200695 In Ancient Greece they had indirect democracy where they have an assembly where citizens go to speak out in important decisions.
Today in countries like the United States they have indirect democracy where some one else speaks on the behalf of the people.]]> 2019-05-06 14:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357200695 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357207861 In a house hold, a family could vote on a decision to be made, or in school, a school council where a student speaking the other students' opinion on a decision.]]> 2019-05-06 14:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357207861 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357818887 Some countries don't have democracy, like Qatar which is one of the few countries that is still an absolute monarchy. 
North Korea is run under a dictatorship where the country is run by a person who makes strict rules and strict punishments to those who break them, the power runs through fear.]]> 2019-05-07 20:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357818887 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357821808 2019-05-07 20:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357821808 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357872174 It's better for countries to have democracy to have fair elections and have public input in the the government. The government is more fair that way.]]> 2019-05-08 01:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/357872174 1442211 https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/358117018 In the United Kingdom it is a constitutional monarchy which works using a parliament, the constitution has more power than the monarchy, freedom is allowed to the nation]]> 2019-05-08 15:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/ybtesgo2ncdv/wish/358117018