Governments of Southern and Eastern Asia Vocabulary

A King, Queen, or Emperor is the head of state but power is limited by a constitution.

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Democracy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Republic

New name given China under Mao Zedong

• Taiwan

• Parliamentary Democracy

• People's Republic of China

• Republic of China

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Theocracy

• Democracy

Having absolute unchecked power - example: a dictator

• Voting Rights

• Presidential Democracy

• Autocratic

• Automatic

When the government controls the economy and society.

• Voting Rights

• Presidential Democracy

• Communism

• Parliamentary

Form of government in which people wote for the legislative body, which in turn selects the prime minister

• People's Republic

• Socialism

• Parliamentary Democracy

• Presidential Democracy

The freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly; amount of freedom allowed by a government.

• Social Justice

• Personal Freedoms

• Voting Rights

• Equity

Parliamentary Democracy; Head of State - President; Head of Government - Prime Minister; Citizens can vote at 18; Constitution provides freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and conservation of language/culture.

• Republic of India

• Peoples Republic of China

• Japan

• South Korea

The form of government in which the citizens directly elect a president.

• Parliamentary

• Democracy

• Presidential

• Dictatorship

Laws that ban discrimination in voting practices by federal, state, and local governments.

• civil rights

• legal rights

• voting rights

• trial law