2. AUTOCRACY OLIGARCHY DEMOCRACY
3 Forms of Government
AUTOCRACY
OLIGARCHY
DEMOCRACY

3. AUTOCRACY RULE BY ONE EXAMPLE 1: TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
FORCE THEORY
EXAMPLE 2: ABSOLUTE MONARCHY
DIVINE RIGHT THEORY
BENITO MUSSOLINI

4. OLIGARCHY RULE BY FEW EXAMPLE: COMMUNIST GOV’T OF CHINA
- MOST OLIGARCHIES CLAIM TO HAVE RULE FOR THE PEOPLE, BUT IN REALITY, VERY FEW HAVE POWER.
Example: Theocracy- a small group of religious officials run the government.
Example: Ancient Rome- a group of Senators ran the government

5. DEMOCRACY GREEK DEMOS- people KRATIA- rule
RULE BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE
EXAMPLE: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Republic- A form of government in which power resides in the people

6. DIRECT DEMOCRACY The people are the gov’t. They create and pass laws
*Nowhere does this exist in its true form*

7. Representative Democracy
CONGRESS
The people vote for delegates to represent them in government.

8. CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
EXAMPLE: GREAT BRITAIN
MONARCHS SHARE POWER W/ ELECTED LEGISLATURES OR SERVE MAINLY AS THE CEREMONIAL LEADERS OF THEIR GOV’T
Queen Elizabeth II

9. CHARACTERISTICS OF DEMOCRACY
Compromise
Individual
Liberty
Majority Rule
w/ Minority Rights
Free
Elections
Competing
Political Parties

10. ANARCHY Anarchy is not a form of gov’t, it is a lack of gov’t.
What would happen if
we had a total lack of
government (anarchy)?