Basic Types of Government

All citizens can vote on all issues.

Royal families and heredity used to transfer power

Religious leaders become the political leaders

Most powerful person becomes the political leader

A party, often anti-democratic, takes over control of political authority but often leaves economic areas to the private market.

Marxist concepts are applied to control both political and economic decisions in order to remove private property inequalities.

The wealthy control most power and economic activities.

Large ethnic groups are conquered by a minority or outside group.

A republic where voters select the legislative branch separately from the executive branch

A republic where voters select the legislative branch and then that branch selects the executive leaders from its membership.

A republic where different layers of government like the national and the states have different kinds of powers.

A republic where the national government gives regional governments their powers and controls the scope of those powers.

Limited group of some kind takes over most political powers.

Which term does not fit the following description. Representatives are elected for set periods to make decisions for society.