Origins of Government
An example would be the conquests by the Roman Enpire.
What is Force Theory?
Hitler is a classic example of this type of government.
What is dictatorship?
It is a nation or territory organized under one government.
What is a state?
An example would be the develipment of socieities in Ancient Greece from small clans into Greek city-states.
What is Evolutionary Theory?
A type of government used by the United States in which elected legislators are entrused with decisionmaking.
What is a Republic [or representative democracy]?
In Bourbon France, King Louis declared himself the state, which made him this of France.
sovereign
Best described by this King James I Quote circa 1610: "The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods".
What is Divine Right Theory?
A type of government where a Prime Minister is the head of the government.
What is a Parlimentary Democracy?
This is also called a representative democracy.
What is a Republic?
An excellent example is how the Founding Fathers came together to establish the US Constitution in 1791.
What is Social Contract Theory?
What is democracy?
An example would be the weak alliance of the first 13 states following the American Revolutionary War, with a nonexistent central authority.
What is a confederation?
Theory that aligns with John Locke's ideas about the consent of the governed.
What is Social Contract theory?
A government in which there is a monarch but alsop has a set of universally applied written basic laws and some power sharing.
Constitutiuonal Monarchy
Both monarchs and dictators.
What is an autocrat?