1-2 Vocabulary: Types of Government

a government in which the supreme power is held by the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

 a form of government characterized by a single leader or group of leaders and little or no toleration for political pluralism or independent programs or media, a form of government where those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.

 a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency.

a system of dividing up power between a central national government and local state governments that are connected to one another by the national government.

the principle that sovereignty should be divided between the federal government and the states especially as expressed by the Constitution of the U.S.

a form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal

democratic form of government in which the party (or a coalition of parties) with the greatest representation in the parliament (legislature) forms the government, its leader becoming prime minister or chancellor.