Legacy of Greece & Rome

The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Government

• Twelve Tables

A government ruled by a king or queen

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Republic

• Devine Right

A government ruled by a few powerful people

• Republic

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Republic

• Aristocracy

Form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives

• Direct Democracy

• Republic

• Government

• Oligarchy

Political system in which the supreme power lies in its citizens

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Aristocracy

• Equal Treatment

The belief that a Monarch received authority to rule from God and therefore could not be questioned.

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Republic

• Devine Right

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

• Twelve Tables

• Written Laws

• Devine Right

• Three Branches of Government

Form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.

• Republic

• Direct Democracy

• Written Laws

• Government

System of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people.

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Devine Right

• Innocent until proven guilty