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Federation   a country which has a federal system of distributing power  
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Republic   a country which has a representative democracy –  
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Russia   a federal system with a presidential democracy and a premier/prime minister appointed by the elected president. Citizens vote, but not fairly -no press freedom. The people are partly free. The real situation is that Putin has most of the power.  
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Federal   a form of government in which power is divided/shared between one central and several regional authorities  
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Unitary   a form of government in which power is held by one central authority –  
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Democracy   a government in which the supreme power is held by the people and exercised by them either directly by voting or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections –  
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Representative Democracy   a government where the people have the power and use it to elect officials who will make decisions for them in the government. Citizens can also remove these officials –  
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the United Kingdom   a parliamentary system whose chief executive is called a Prime Minister, and a constitutional monarch with only ceremonial power. Has a unitary system of distributing power. Citizens vote, and have all modern rights and freedoms. –  
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Germany   a parliamentary system whose prime minister is called a Chancellor, and a ceremonial President. Is a federal system of distributing power. The role of the citizen is to vote, and citizens have all modern rights and freedoms.  
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Presidential Democracy   a system of government in which the chief executive is constitutionally independent of the legislature and directly elected by the citizens –  
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Theocracy   government by religious leaders  
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Oligarchy   government by the few, sometimes a government in which a small group exercises control, especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. The citizen has a very limited role –  
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Autocracy   government in which one person possesses unlimited power and the citizen has little if any role  
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Absolute Monarchy   government in which one person possesses unlimited power gained through heredity –  
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Dictatorship   government in which one person possesses unlimited power which is not hereditary, but usually gained through force  
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Parliamentary Democracy   the real executive power held by a cabinet made of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature. A Prime Minister is elected by the legislature, and still part of it as well –  
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Confederation   voluntary associations of independent states that, for a common purpose, agree to certain limitations on their freedom of action, and establish a weak central authority to hold the association together –  
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