Vocabulary Quiz - Forms of Government

a form of government where one leader has absolute control over citizen's lives

• dictatorship

• constitutional monarchy
• representative democracy
• republic

rule by the people

• democracy
• constitutional monarchy
• oligarchy

• dictatorship

a government in which one person inherits political power and claims total power by divine right

• absolute monarchy

• representative democracy
• constitutional monarchy

• anarchy

a system in which a hereditary king or queen serves as the ceremonial head of state and is subject to the nation's constitution

• constitutional monarchy

• absolute monarchy

• republic

• theocracy

the area in which a state's rule applies

• territory

• population

• nation

• government

the ability to rule absolutely within a territory

• sovereignty

• anarchy

• republic

• government

the group of people who are members (citizens) of a state

• population

• country

• territory

• government

the organization inside a state that controls the actions and policies of the state

• government

• direct democracy

• constitutional monarchy
• sovereignty

a system in which the people directly debate and decide important issues

• direct democracy
• republic
• government

• theocracy

a government in which people choose leaders to represent them

• representative democracy
• constitutional monarchy
• dictatorship

• oligarchy