Government Types
What is Feudalism?
This a constitution.
The foundational document that all actions of government are judged by?
This is a group that shares a common religion, language, culture, and history
What is a nation?
He created the idea of the "Leviathan"
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This is what the Y-Axis measures
What is how many people rule the government?
This system of government sees a limited number of people or families utilize the government to hoard money and power for themselves.
What is an oligarchy?
These things drive a non-constitutional government.
What are ideology, tradition, and social situtions?
This is an area of land managed by a government
What is a state?
Locke believes we have a right to these 3 things.
What are Life, Liberty, and Property?
This is what the X-Axis Measures
What is who do they rule for?
This system of government makes the monarch the head of the state.
What is an absolute monarchy?
These are the things imposed by a constitution
What are term limits, limits of power, and limits of punishment?
This is a sovereign country where the residing ethnic groups along with the government within the designated
What is a nation-state?
Montesquieu put forth this idea.
What is the Separation of Powers?
These are the main marks on the Y-Axis.
What is the rule of one, rule a few, and rule of many?
This type of leader rules alone for the good of the nation.
What is a monarch?
These are the risks of a non-constitutional government
This is what Austro-Hungarian Empire and Yugoslavia were.
What are Nations?
Hobbes believed this was the original setting of human existence.
What is a "War of all against all"?
What is "Nasty, Brutish, and Short"?
These are the main marks of the X-Axis
What is rule for oneself, rule for outsiders, rule for the wider population?
This type of system sees mobs run riot across a country with little respect for property or law.
What is democracy?
These countries have constitutions, but are still repressive.
What are Iran and North Korea?
This is what the USA, Japan, France, and China are.
What are Nation-States?
He believed only institutions could be corrupted, not people.
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This is the main thing you should look at when examining a government.
What is the structure and way a government works?