Government Study Guide Check

A system to provide leadership, offer services and protection, and create order

• Dictatorship

• Autocracy

• Government

• Theocracy

Match the following

• small group of people has power

• oligarchy

• one person has all the power

• representative democracy

• people hold all the power

• democracy

• citizens elect leaders to represent their interests

• autocracy

• king or queen rules

• monarchy

Match the following

• one leader has absolute control

• constitutional monarchy

• monarchs share power with other parts of government

• dictatorship

• no government is in place

• theocracy

• small group who use military power

• junta

• God is ultimate authority, religious laws used to govern

• anarchy

Characteristics of a THEOCRACY include:

​ ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)  

• based on religion
• God is supreme ruler
• follow religious rules
• can be any government type
• people vote
• people have no rights
• power passed through family
• ruler has absolute control

Characteristics of a DEMOCRACY include: ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ ​ (d)   ​ (e)  

• people vote
• citizens hold power
• many people have power
• direct - citizens involved in all parts
• representative - citizens elect leaders
• based on religion
• use military to gain/maintain control
• king or queen

Characteristics of a DICTATORSHIP include: ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)   ​ (e)  

• absolute control
• one person has total power
• military maintains order/control
• people have no rights
• often use force to gain power
• based on religion
• people vote
• citizens hold power
• king or queen

Characteristics of a MONARCHY include:​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ ​ (c)   ​ (d)  

• king or queen
• power passed down through family
• absolute - monarch has total control
• constitutional - ruler shares power
• citizens hold power
• God is supreme ruler
• often use force
• can be direct or representative