Forms of Government

One person is in charge

• Democracy

• Autocracy

Citizens often have no rights.

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

Led by a king or queen

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

Nobody is in charge

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

Leader often shares power with other

parts of government

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

Where citizens elect others

to serve in government

• Representative Democracy

• Dictatorship

How is authority obtained by a Dictatorship?

• passed down from family member

• by religious leaders

• taken by force

• free and open elections

Who leads in a Theocracy?

• Religious Leaders

• Dictator

• King or Queen

• President

Which government usually has a single leader, the ruler's will is law, people have limited or no rights and the leader has total control over people's lives?

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Democratic Republic

• Dictatorship

People elect representatives to make laws/decisions for them, a government without a monarch.

• Theocracy

• Democratic

  Republic

• Dictator

• Constitutional Monarchy