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Forms of Government
Term | Definition |
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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. |
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. |