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Civics Chapter 3.4
Forms of Government
Term | Definition |
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Democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
Direct Democracy | a type of government in which the people themselves meet and make the laws that they decide are needed |
Representative Democracy | a system of government in which the people elect officials to make and administer laws for their country |
Republic | a government based on representative democracy |
Monarchy | a form of government in which political power is held by a single ruler such as a king or queen |
Authoritarian | power is held by a person or a group not accountable to the people |
Autocracy | A government in which a single ruler or group has unlimited power; dictatorship |
Socialism | an economic system in which most forms of economically valuable property and resources are owned or controlled by the state |
Communism | a one party system of government based on the idea of state ownership and direction of property and industry |
Oligarchy | a form of government in which all power is in the hands of a few persons or in a dominant class or group; government by the few |
Parliamentary | a legislative body that holds meetings or assembly for conference on public or national affairs |
Federal | power is divided among a central, national government and smaller self-governing political units such as states |
Confederal | relating to or involving two or more nations |
Unitary | central government is supreme |