Introduction to Government

God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

People voluntarily came together and created the state.

• Social Contract Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Chaos Theory

A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience

• Parliamentary

• Unitary

• Presidential

• Confederation

A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Parliamentary

A government in which the president is directly elected by the people

• Parliamentary

• Presidential

• Unitary

• Confederation

A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Paliamentary

The supreme political authority rest with the people and the citizens themselves

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Confederation

An alliance of independent states

• Presidential

• Unitary

• Presidential

• Confederation

A government in which the legislative branch elects the president

• Presidential

• Unitary

• Parliamentary

• Confederation

Out of these, the best example of an oligarchy is:

• China

• United States

• France

• Africa