Forms of Government

2. central government gets its authority from the independent states
5. completely regulated by the state
6. type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people
7. Abolute rule for that persons entire life, passed down among families
9. sovereign power is distributed
12. a governement having a chief of state who is not a monarch, in modern times is usually a president.
13. people mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries
15. a government in which power is vested in a minority consisted of those believed to be the best qualified
16. governing system in which a single central government has total power over all of its other political subdivisions

1. Absolute rule is concentrated into a dictator or group of people
3. supreme legislative body of a major political unit
4. government run by the people
8. a government in which a small group exercises contol especially for curropt and selfish purposes
10. government set off of religion
11. compound mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system
14. a government in which one person posseses unlimited power