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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Direct | form of democracy in which people propose, debate, and vote for the rules and laws that guide their society |
| Matriarchy | form of government that is entirely dominated by women |
| Dictatorship | form of government that is generally upheld through violence, terror, and propaganda |
| Foreigners | could never vote in Athens, could in Rome with 25 years of military service, and can be in Ecuador after 5 years in the country |
| Sex | basis of power in both patriarchies and matriarchies |
| Read and Write | this was a requirement for being able to vote until 1996 |
| Oligarchy | a government in which a small group of people are given power on the basis of prestige |
| Slaves | could not be citizens in either Athens or Rome, though Rome allowed them to become citizens if they could become freemen |
| Authority | what legitimizes or confers power |
| Block | type of voting used in the Roman Assemblies |
| Election | most high officials in the Roman Republic got their office this way |
| Electors | in the 1830 Constitution, these people were elected to elect the “Asamblea” which then elected the president and vice president |
| Enabling Act | the law created by the German Reichstag in which the legislature legally gave Hitler total power |
| Patriarchy | form of government that is entirely dominated by men |
| Lottery | the way in which many of the high officials of Athens got their office |
| Voting | the basis of any form of democracy |
| Sixteen | in the 2008 Ecuadorian Constitution people as young as this age were given the right to vote |
| Divine Right | the basis of power of most monarchical (kings and queens) governments |
| Women | in the 1929 Ecuadorian Constitution, these people were given the right to vote |
| Plutocracy | form of government in which a small group of people are given power on the basis of wealth |
| Men | In Athens, in the Roman Republic, and in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 1830, only they had the right to citizenship |
| Women | could be citizens in Rome, though they still could not vote |
| Republic | type of democracy in which people vote for others to represent them in government |
| Power | the ability to control, influence, or direct people or resources |
| Eighteen | in the 1996 Ecuadorian Constitution the age to vote was lowered to this |
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