Types of Governments

Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others.

• Monarchy
• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Plutocracy

Who makes most of the important governmental decisions in an oligarchy?

• the king
• the people
• the legislature
• small group of powerful rulers

• federal 
• confederal 
• unitary 
• autocracy 

When the state and national government share power and work together. 

• federal
• confederal 
• unitary 
• presidential 

An autocracy is also a type of which government? 

• Democracy 
• Unitary 
• Parliamentary 
• Federal 

When states are independent and hold most of the power.  Has a weak central government. 

• Federal 
• Confederal 
• Dictatorship 
• Oligarchy 

Citizens vote for the Legislative and Executive branches.  The two branches are separate and coequal. 

• Parliamentary 
• Presidential 
• Democracy 
• Oligarchy 

A form of government in which citizens choose representatives through free and fair elections to make decisions on their behalf.

• Representative Democracy
• Federalism
• Unitary System
• Direct Democracy

In a Unitary system, most of the power is in the hands of the

• voters
• local government
• central government
• central and local government

Why do the individual voters have more power in a democracy than they do in an autocracy or an oligarchy?

• kings are always poor rulers
• the voters get to choose people that make the laws
• all of the power stays in the hands of the local government
• the voters in democratic countries always choose the best qualified leaders that always do a good job