1. Government: people who make and enforce the laws.
Types of Government
Government: people who make and enforce the laws.

2. Unitary
Government in which power is held by one central authority

3. Confederation
Voluntary associations of independent states.

4. Federal
Power is divided between one central government and several regional authorities

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

6. 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.

7. Democratic
A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people…”for the people, by the people.” They have free elections.

8. 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.

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

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

11. Theocratic
Government is a theocracy that is ran by religious leaders.

12. Communist
Type of government where the government has aboslute power over every aspect of ones life.

13. Monarchy
Government that is ran by a king or queen.

14. This week’s 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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