Government

Monarchy

Republic

Democracy

Fundamentals orders of Connecticut

Monarchy - undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person.

The King or Queen - have absolute power, chosen by divine power and birth right - NO ELECTIONS

Nobles - families own all the businesses and money

Knights - Chosen by the king to protect the King and Nobles

Peasants - are poor and work for the benefit of the king and nobles.

You worship the religion the king tells you to worship

You have no say in the laws or who the next king is.

You have no say on how your taxes are spent.

If you are a peasant, you'll always be a peasant. You can't move up in the monarchy.

Republic - Republic Government is a group of people that elect individuals to represent the whole group.

Jamestown self govern and established the Virginia House of Burgesses

The Virginia House of Burgesses is a type of Republic government.

The U.S. Government today still uses this model of Republic government.

Democracy - is a type of government in which people vote on the rules and laws they will obey.

They created the Mayflower compact

Each person votes on rules and laws.

The U.S. government also used the Pilgrims form of government when creating the U.S. Constitution.

The Fundamental Orders stated the powers and limits of government.

Established checks and balances

It was three colonies that got together to create a type government that separated the power into branches.

They separated the power of their government into 3 branches. Laws, Executive, and Judicial.

Our government today is separated into three branches of government

Thanks to them, no branch of government is too powerful, including the president of the United States.

Thanks to Jamestown we have representative government.

Thanks to Plymouth we have individual voting

Thanks to the Fundamental orders of Connecticut we have the 3 branches and the separation of powers in our government.