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Title: Types of Governments


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Types of Governments
  • World and U.S. Studies

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There are six types of governments you need to
know
  1. Absolute monarchy
  2. Constitutional monarchy
  3. Parliamentary democracy
  4. Presidential democracy
  5. Theocracies
  6. Dictatorships

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1. Absolute Monarchy
  • Absolute monarchy is an idealized form of
    government, a monarchy where the ruler has the
    power to rule their country and citizens freely
    with no laws or legally-organized direct
    opposition telling the monarchy what to do.
  • In order of importance
  • 1. King
  • 2. People

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Kings and Queens
  • Get their power through birthright or heredity.
  • Raised to become head of state.
  • Highly educated and cultured
  • Louis XIV of France was an absolute monarch.
    (1681-1715)

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Todays absolute monarchies
  • 3. Saudi Arabia
  • 1. Swaziland
  • Vatican City
  • 4. Oman

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2. Constitutional Monarchies
  • A constitutional monarchy is a political system
    in which the head of state is a king or queen
    ruling to the extent allowed by a constitution.
  • In order of importance
  • 1. The constitution
  • 2. King or Queen
  • 3. People

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The biggest is
  • United Kingdom with the commonwealth nations of
  • New Zealand
  • Canada
  • Jamaica
  • Queen Elizabeth II is the monarch

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Other constitutional monarchies
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3. Parliamentary democracy
  • This political system is based on the idea that
    Parliament is supreme.
  • The people choose representatives at regular
    elections

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Who has this?
  • Australia
  • The people elect the parliament. Then Parliament
    makes the laws and decisions for the country.
  • Then Parliament elects a president.

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4. Presidential democracy
  • The U.S.A.
  • The people elect the president to a 4 year term.
  • Congress is elected separately.
  • All branches of government work together within a
    system of checks and balances.

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Is this good?
  • It is effective, everyone can be heard. Every
    voice counts.
  • It is ineffective, it takes time to hear all
    points of views, discuss and vote.

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5. Theocracy
  • A government by a god or priests.

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Who has it?
  • In the contemporary world, Iran and Afghanistan
    are considered theocracies because ultimate
    political authority in each is in the hands of
    religious leaders and a fundamentalist regime
    whose purpose is to organize society under
    religious law.

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6. Dictatorship
  • A form of government in which absolute power is
    concentrated in a dictator.
  • What is a dictator - a ruler who is unconstrained
    by law and usually rules with terror.
  • A dictator can do what he wants, when he wants to
    whomever he wants. If you question a dictators
    rule you can be killed.

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  • The World's Worst Current Day Dictators
  •   
  • Kim Jong-il (North Korea)
  • King Fahd and Prince Abdullah (Saudi Arabia)
  • Charles Taylor (Liberia)
  • Than Shwe (former Burma, now Myanmar)
  • Teodoro Obiang Nguema (Equatorial Guinea)
  • Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan)
  • Muammar Gaddafi (Libya)
  • Fidel Castro (Cuba)
  • Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus)
  • Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)

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What is better?
  • There can be pros and cons for all forms of
    government.
  • Try to name one pro and one con for
  • 1. absolute monarchy
  • 2. constitutional monarchy
  • 3. parliamentary democracy
  • 4. presidential democracy
  • 5. theocracy
  • 6. dictatorship
  • Now lets rate the forms of government
  • 1best 6worse
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