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Forms of Government
Flashcards to study for the forms of government and the Ecuadorian constitution
Term | Definition |
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direct democracy | 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 voting | type of voting used in the Roman Assemblies |
elections | 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 |
patriarchy | form of government that is entirely dominated by men |
random 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, they could also be citizens in Rome, though they still could not 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 |
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 |
Enabling Act | the law created by the German Reichstag in which the legislature legally gave Hitler total power |