Unit 12 Key Terms

A monarchy in which all of the power is given to the hereditary ruler. This ruler also has the power to make any and all laws.

• Direct Democracy.

• Prime minister.

• Absolute Monarchy.

• Representative democracy/republic.

No government at all and there isn’t any government to enforce laws.

• Socialism.

• Anarchy.

• Absolute Monarchy.

• Unitary system.

A form of government in which political power is controlled by oneindividual such as a monarch, dictator, emperor, etc.

• Prime minister.

• Oligarchy.

• Autocracy.

• Socialism.

A one-party economic system of government based on the idea of state ownership and direction of property and industry.  Dictatorships tend to use this economic system.

• Oligarchy.

• Confederal system.

• Federal system.

• Communism.

A system of government where the state/regional governments have the concentration of power with a weak central government

• Confederal system.

• Parliamentary system.

• Federal system.

• Theocracy.

A monarchy in which the power of the hereditary ruler is limited by the country’s constitution and laws.

• Constitutional monarchy.

• Communism.

• Anarchy.

• Autocracy.

This form of government is ruled by “God” and the leaders are religious leaders.  Society tends to us religious laws to settle disputes.

• Anarchy.

• Communism.

• Theocracy.

• Oligarchy.

In this autocratic form of government, power is not inherited, but is acquired by force (military or political).  North Korea has this form of government.

• Constitutional monarchy.

• Anarchy.

• Autocracy.

• Totalitarianism.

A system of government where concentration of power should be in the central government, with state governments having little power.

• Unitary system.

• Confederal system.

• Parliamentary system.

• Theocracy.

An economic system of government in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies.

• Federal system.

• Socialism.

• Communism.

• Direct democracy.