Forms of Government Definitions
This form of government involves a leader who is a king or queen that has total control over the government.
What is an absolute monarchy?
In this form of government, Shaka of the Zulu kingdom ruled for 10 years unopposed after killing his brother to take total power.
What is an absolute monarchy?
This man was known for his focus on Natural Rights, meaning that all people are guaranteed the rights to life, liberty and property.
According to the US Constitution, when someone is accused of or convicted of a crime, they cannot receive any "cruel or unusual punishment". This aligns with
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This form of government has all members of the society vote to make decisions and pass laws for the society.
What is a direct democracy?
Today, England has the form of government, where the King has only social power, and the Parliament passes all of the laws and controls the budget.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Despite getting married, this woman believed the institution of marriage treated women as less than men, and she argued that we need to reeducate the masses to gain equality for everyone.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
In a Constitutional Monarchy, power is split amongst multiple branches of government in order to protect the rights of the people. Splitting up this power primarily comes from the ideals of
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This is the hand motion that represents Montesquieu.
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In this form of government, the people vote to elect individuals who represent their ideas and pass laws on their behalf in the government.
What is a republic?
Homestead's ASB is a great example of this form of government because we have yearly elections to determine who will make decisions for you about how the social year looks.
What is a republic?
This guy, with baldness in the front and party in the back, believed that people are naturally evil, so we should give power to one person to control our wicked desires.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
According to the law of most places, your individual rights to live freely are protected by the government, which allows you to maintain your life and property as you please so long as it doesn't cause harm to others. This exists because of
Who is John Locke?
This is philosopher shares Mr. Neese's Birthday.
Who is Voltaire?
In this form of government, power is shared between a king/queen and a legislative branch.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
In class, we only let the people who are shorter than 5'5 lead the class because being short is the preferred quality.
What is aristocracy?
This philosopher was a fan of nature, and thought that without unnatural influences, we were all naturally good people.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
In our class, we did the Good Teacher/Bad Teacher activity so that we had a common understanding of what we wanted to have happen, and what we needed to not happen. By creating this social contract, we were following the ideals of
Who is Rousseau?
This TV series, which Thomas Hobbes would love, has house guests living together, completing challenges, and deciding who is a faithful, and who is not.
What is The Traitors?
In order to be one of a few leaders in this form of government, you need to be of a high social or economic class.
What is an aristocracy?
At Homestead, if Dr. Nurnberg decided that she had all the power and planned to make decisions for everyone without their consideration, we would be apart of this form of government.
What is dictatorship (or autocracy)?
This philosopher believed that "On Crime and Punishment," people should not be tortured when charged with a crime, and that we should have a system where the punishment actually matches the crime.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
In early American history, people fled England to colonies like Pennsylvania in order to gain religious freedom, which matched the ideals of this philosopher.
Who is Voltaire?
To help us learn more about Capitalism, Socialism and Communism, we played an activity with this candy.
What are Hershey Kisses?