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Forms of Government
Democracy Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| form of democracy in which people propose, debate, and vote for the rules and laws that guide their society | Direct |
| form of government that is entirely dominated by women | Matriarchy |
| form of government that is generally upheld through violence, terror, and propaganda | Dictatorship |
| 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 | Foreigners |
| basis of power in both patriarchies and matriarchies | Sex/Gender |
| this was a requirement for being able to vote until 1996 | Reading and writing |
| a government in which a small group of people are given power on the basis of prestige | Oligarchy |
| could not be citizens in either Athens or Rome, though Rome allowed them to become citizens if they could become freemen | Slaves |
| what legitimizes or confers power | Authority |
| type of voting used in the Roman Assemblies | Block |
| most high officials in the Roman Republic got their office this way | Election |
| in the 1830 Constitution, these people were elected to elect the “Asamblea” which then elected the president and vice president | Electors |
| the law created by the German Reichstag in which the legislature legally gave Hitler total power | Enabling act |
| form of government that is entirely dominated by men | Patriarchy |
| the way in which many of the high officials of Athens got their office | lottery |
| the basis of any form of democracy | Voting |
| in the 2008 Ecuadorian Constitution people as young as this age were given the right to vote | Sixteen |
| the basis of power of most monarchical (kings and queens) governments | Divine right |
| in the 1929 Ecuadorian Constitution, these people were given the right to vote | Women |
| form of government in which a small group of people are given power on the basis of wealth | Plutocracy |
| In Athens, in the Roman Republic, and in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 1830, only they had the right to citizenship | Men |
| could be citizens in Rome, though they still could not vote | Women |
| type of democracy in which people vote for others to represent them in government | Republic |
| the ability to control, influence, or direct people or resources | Power |
| in the 1996 Ecuadorian Constitution the age to vote was lowered to this | Eighteen |
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