How do citizens participate in the government



How do citizens participate in the government?- KEY

|Autocratic/Autocracy |Oligarchic/Oligarchy |Democratic/Democracy |

|Rule of ONE |Rule of a FEW |Rule of ALL |

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|Long definition: a country or nation that is governed by a single |Long definition: a country or nation controlled by a small group of|Long definition: a country or nation that receives its power from |

|person with unlimited power |people that hold the key to power |the people (all the people hold the key to power) |

|Examples of autocratic governments |Examples of oligarchic governments |Examples of democratic governments |

|Dictatorship |Theocracy |Parliamentary democracy |

|Absolute Monarchy | |Presidential democracy |

|Theocracy | | |

How do governments distribute power?-KEY

|Unitary |Confederation |Federal |

|Central government has all the power to make laws and decision for |Individual states make their own laws and decision and are loosely |Power to make laws and decision for the people is SHARED between |

|the people. |aligned to a weak central government |central government and states |

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|Long definition: One central government controls weaker states. |Long definition: A weak or loose organization of states that agree|Long definition: Power is shared by a powerful central government |

|Power is not shared between states, counties, or provinces. |to follow a central government. Each state makes its own laws and |and states or provinces that are given considerable self-rule, |

| |the central government is only concerned about defense and trade |usually through their own legislatures |

|Examples of unitary governments |Examples of confederation governments |Examples of federal governments |

|The former Soviet Union |*European Union |United States Germany |

|China |*OPEC |Australia |

|United Kingdom , France |No current examples of countries – confederations don’t last long | |

|Germany during WWII | | |

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