Unit 1.1 - Forms and Systems of Government

If a small group (council) of people formed a self-appointed government to take care of themselves. What form of government do they represent?

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Autocracy

What type of government does the United States have?

• Theocracy

• Autocracy

• Republic

• Absolute Monarchy

Someone becomes the ruler of their country only because they inherited it at birth from their family. What form of government is this?

• Oligarchy

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

What do an absolute monarchy, dictatorship, and oligarchy have in common?

• The head of state is chosen by Parliament

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  A single individual or small group exercises control over government

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  Political power is exercised by representatives elected by the people

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  Their citizens decide public issues for themselves

Which form of government gives the most power to ordinary citizens?

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

Which statement applies to all types of monarchies?

• Their ruler holds absolute power, unlimited by Parliaments or constitutions

• They combine the executive and legislative branches

• The monarch's power, whether total or limited, is establish in a written constitution

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  The monarch inherits his or her power at birth

Representative democracy is also known as:

• Confederal

• A Republic

• A Dictatorship

• Socialist

The way a government is structured:

• Form of government

• System of government

Where authority is held or how power is distributed

• Form of government

• System of government

A military leader who becomes the head of a country, often by force:

• 
  Oligarch

• Dictator

• Socialist

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  Governor