goverments

A system of government where power belongs to a ruling family.

• Monarch

• Absolute Monarchy (absolutism)

• Limited Monarchy (Constitutional Monarchy)

• Representative Democracy

Referred to as Absolutists

The rulers have total authority of the government

Citizens have very few rights and cannot question it.

• Limited Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

A system of government  where power comes from the people.

• Representative Democracy

• Totalitarianism

• Democracy

• Oligarchy  

Refers to a form of government where the citizens conduct their affairs for their own benefit rather than for the benefit of a ruler.

• Republic

• Absolute Monarchy (absolutism)

• Theocracy

• Limited Monarchy (Constitutional Monarchy

People elect persons to the government in order to have decisions made for them (Indirect).

• Representative Democracy

• Direct democracy

• Monarch

• Oligarchy

A form of democracy where the people vote on all matters.

• Direct Democracy

• Absolute Monarchy (absolutism

• Theocracy

• Totalitarianism

A system of government where the rulers have total unchecked control of the nation.

• Totalitarianism

• Dictatorship

• Absolute Monarchy (absolutism)

• Absolute Monarchy (absolutism)

Is a form of totalitarianism.

Power is taken by force and requires 

military support.

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

• Direct democracy

• Totalitarianism

A system of government where a group of people rule and have power to serve their own interests.

• Oligarchy

• Absolute Monarchy (absolutism)

• Representative Democracy

• Totalitarianism

Laws are traditionally 

based on the holy books.

• Monarch

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy