Principles and types of Governments

What characteristics must be present to be recognized as a state?

• population

• territory

• sovereignty

• government

What is a territory?

• land with known and recognized boundaries

• to have supreme and absolute power within a territory

What is sovereignty?

• land with known boundaries

• to have supreme and absolute power within a territory

What is Force Theory?

• individual or group claims control over a territory and Forces the population to submit

• population formed out of primitive families

What is Divine Right Theory?

• theory that government gains their authority from will of God

• people choose to give state enough power to promote the well being of everyone and all political power comes from the will of the people

Unitary

• government in which all power belongs to one central agency

• government in which power is divided between one central and several local government

What are two types of Democracy?

• Direct and Representative

• Monarchy and Dictatorship

Democracy

• power rests with the people

• power lies within the parliament

Autocracy

• government in which single person holds all political power

• government in which all the people hold the political power

Monarchy

• power lies with the parliament, king or queen

• government in which a small self appointed group has sole power to rule