Types of Government

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Types of Government
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Unitary

• Government in which power is held by one central
  authority

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Confederation

• Voluntary associations of independent states.

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Federal

• Power is divided between one central government
  and several regional authorities

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Autocratic

• Government in which one person possesses
  unlimited power and the citizen has little if any
  role in the government

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Oligarchic

• Government by the few, sometimes in which a small
  group exercises control especially for corrupt
  and selfish purposes. The citizen has a very
  limited role.

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Democratic

• A government in which the supreme power is vested
  in the peoplefor the people, by the people.
  They have free elections.

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Parliamentary

• A system of government having the real executive
  power vested in a cabinet composed of members of
  the legislature who are individually and
  collectively responsible to legislature. May have
  a Prime Minister elected by the legislature.

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Presidential

• A system of government in which the president is
  constitutionally independent of the legislature.

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Dictatorship

• A system of government where an individual has
  usually taken over the government by force and
  has not been elected.

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Theocratic Government of Iran

• Government is a theocracy that is ran by
  religious leaders.

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Parliamentary government of Israel

• Unitary system where the head of the government
  is the Prime Minister.

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The Monarchy of Saudi Arabia

• Government that is ran by a king or queen.

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This weeks activities

• Verbal learners
• Crossword Puzzle/Word Search (definitions are
  words)
• Magazine (cover page, , definitions and table of
  contents)
• Dictionary (cover page, country examples,
  definitions and used in a sentence)
• Visual learners
• Collage
• Comic Strip(cartoon explaining government types)
• Brochure
• Kinesthetic learners
• Puzzle
• Game
• Mobile

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