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?
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]?
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?
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?
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