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Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A government in which the powers of the leaders are limited by law | Limited Government |
| A government in which leaders have total power, with no limits on their power | Unlimited Government |
| A written set of laws that tells how a government is to be organized and run | Constitution |
| Rule, control, or leadership by one person with total power | Dictatorship |
| A political system in which the government has complete control over the people | Totalitarian |
| A king or a queen rules the country, often inherits their power. Can be absolute or constitutional. | Monarchy |
| A type of government in which one person has all the power | Autocracy |
| A government in which a small group of people has all the power | Oligarchy |
| A complete breakdown or lack of government | Anarchy |
| A government run by representatives that the people choose | Representative Democracy |
| A form of government where all adults take part in the decisions. | Direct Democracy |
| A government led by an official who is believed to have divine guidance, or is a religious leader in the community. | Theocracy |
| Rule by the people | Democracy |
| A system in which a king of queen who inherits the throne by birth has complete and total control for life. | Absolute monarchy |
| A government in which the power of the king or queen is limited by constitutional law. Often, the king or queen is only a symbol. | Constitutional Monarchy |
| A form of totalitarian government which believes its people are superior to others, so it is their right to conquer other peoples and lands. | Fascism |
| A government in which the constitution allows only one political party to govern. | Single-Party State |
| Voters choose a president to lead the government as head of the executive branch. They also elect lawmakers to represent them in a national legislature. Both the president and the legislators serve fixed terms of a certain amount of year. | Presidential Democracy |
| Voters elect lawmakers to represent them in the nation's parliament, and the political party that wins the most seats then selects one of its members to head the government. Sometimes this person is called a prime minister or a chancellor. | Parliamentary Democracy |
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