Types of Government

The belief that a monarch has god's permission to rule. This is what gives the monarch his or her absolute power.

• Dictatorship

• Fascism

• Divine Right

• Theocracy

The type of democracy where every citizen votes on every single law.

• Direct democracy

• Representative democracy

• Greek democracy

• Democratic republic

Rule by religious leaders. There is no separation between church and state.

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Aristocracy

• Theocracy

A government that has total control over every aspect of public and private life. People have no rights!

• Aristocracy

• Monarchy

• Totalitarian State

• Oligarchy

A political system in which a country is ruled by a monarch who has absolute control.

• Monarchy

• Absolutism

• Totalitarian State

• Theocracy

In this type of government, lords are given land by the king in exchange for loyalty. Then, the lords promise to protect the people living on the land. The people living on the land work to earn their keep.

• Islamic Republic

• Theocracy

• Fascism

• Feudalism

In this government, a king or a queen rules.

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

• Absolutism

A system where people have few rights and the government is controlled by a single person or a small group.

• Absolutism

• Aristocracy

• Feudalism

• Dictatorship

A government that is ruled by the people.

• Direct democracy

• Democracy

• Republic

• Theocracy

A system that believes the state (nation) is supreme and comes before any citizen's needs. Citizens are expected to sacrifice for the state.

• Absolutism

• Fascism

• Feudalism

• Islamic Republic