Government Types
A group of people who make and enforce laws for a country.
What is a government?
The ways people can take part in government, like voting.
What is citizen participation?
A person in charge of a government (e.g., President, Prime Minister).
What is a leader?
A presidential democracy where citizens vote for their president in North America.
What is Mexico?
: A country in North America with a parliamentary democracy.
What is Canada?
A government where one person has all the power; people have no real say.
What is an autocracy?
A citizen’s right to choose leaders or laws in a democracy.
What is voting?
The head of the Canadian government, chosen by the Parliament.
What is the Prime Minister?
A presidential democracy in South America like the U.S.
What is Brazil?
The people vote for lawmakers, and those lawmakers choose the Prime Minister.
What is a parliamentary democracy?
A government where the people have power and vote for leaders.
What is a democracy?
An autocratic government where the leader has full control and citizens have few rights.
What is Cuba?
The elected part of Canada’s Parliament (like the U.S. House of Representatives).
What is the House of Commons?
A type of democracy where the people elect the president directly.
Answer: What is a presidential democracy?
Canada’s symbolic head of state (King/Queen of England), with no real power.
What is the monarch?
A democracy where the people elect a legislature, and the legislature chooses the leader (Prime Minister).
What is a parliamentary democracy?
: A system where the monarch has limited power and follows the rules of a constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy?