Types of Government

If you vote for people to represent you in government,  you live in a

• Dictatorship

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Theocracy

government structure in which government actions are limited by law.

• Federal System

• Political Party

• Unlimited Government

• Limited Government

system of basic rules and principles by which the government is organized.

• Constitution

• Foreign Policy

• Diplomacy

• Interest Group

legal member of a country.

• Diplomacy

• Citizen

• Civic Participation

• Empire

What is Direct Democracy?

• A royal family has absolute power

• All citizens vote

• A royal family has limited power

• Citizens elect representatives to make decisions

What is Theocracy?

• One person has all the power

• Religious leaders have all the power

• One elite group has all the power

• No government

What is Dictatorship?

• One elite group has all the power

• Religious leaders have all the power

• No government

• One person has all the power

If you live in a country that has a king, but that king has no real power and the people elect the leaders, you live in a

• Absolute Monarchy

• Anarchy

• Republic

• Constitutional Monarchy

What word means "rule by the people"

• Anarchy

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

• Democracy

When a country is ruled by a King, Queen, Prince, or Princess, and they have TOTAL power, they are a(n)

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Democracy

• Theocracy