Types of Government Systems

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Direct Democracy

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Small group of people make government for their benefit, based on wealth, family, or military power.

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Totalitarian Regime

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Government controls all aspects of life---political, social and economic.

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Representative Democracy

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Government by the people, citizens elect people to represent them.

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Theocracy

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Rulers claim to represent and be directed by a set of religious ideas.

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Constitutional Monarchy

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Government where a monarch is limited by law, real power lies with another branch of government.

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Oligarchy/Aristocracy

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Small group of people make government for their benefit, based on wealth, family, or military power.

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Monarchy

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Government ruled by a king or queen, power is inherited.

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Dictatorship

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Single leader holds absolute power and makes all decisions; uses violence and fear to control people.