What is autocracy basically and how does the government work?
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The term autocracy means "rule of one." In this form of government all power resides in the hands of one individual. The term autocracy is synomous with monocracy which also means rule by one individual. This is differentiated from Monarchy, which is by definition hereditary rule by a single monarch. Each of these forms of government differ from one another, they may or may not despotic in nature. In despotic governments individuals, or a group of individuals retain all control. This may or may not be benelovent. Autocracy is not a not necessarily negative. As for dictatorships, these are forms of government where those who rule do so absolutely. Dictatorships may or may not be autocratic. They can also be democratic.\n\nOur Founding Fathers opposed democracy, and believed it was a form of tyranny and they actively opposed instituting a democracy, preferring a Republic. Which is what America is or is supposed to be. As a Christian I believe in a form of autocracy. That is theocracy. Believing that someday God shall rule, and be the supreme ruler in which all power resides. I hope this helps.
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Anarchy, and one in which all countrymen are moral. (And a theocracy, if everyone believes, but then it's a god's dictatorship) That is the problem with communism- for it to work, you need a strong dictatorship.
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A presidential government is a form of federal system.
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its like the U.S. in the fact that its a democracy but the president (who is voted into office) is only Head of State (does partys/makes the country look good). The prime minister is the Head of Government and is the leader of the majority in the Legislature.
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local government is the government in your state/town.\nfederal government runs the country where you live
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I can't be very specific but I know a democracy is a system where the people vote for their representatives and all the laws/bi-laws that govern the country.
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it is the rules of the government, elected officials make it.
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Göran Persson\nPrime Minister, Prime Minister's Office \n\nSweden's democratic system\nSweden is a parliamentary democracy, which means that all public power proceeds from the people. At the national level, the people are represented by the Riksdag which has legislative power. The Government implements the Riksdags decisions and draws up proposals for new laws or law amendments.
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Answerman is a bit off on the question here, since a monarchy is a form of government and might have very little to do with his statement.\n\nA government is essentially a body of rulers who make decisions for the society they govern.  Usually these decisions are ones that an individual of the society cannot or should not make by themselves because of their education, caste level, ect.  A good example of this is crimes against an individual.  If we allowed everybody to make the decisions on how to punish someone who committed a crime against them, the amount of homicides would probably be up.  In this example, the government makes the decision, creating an objective view to the crime.\nDepending on the type of government, the control can be from only one person (monarchy) to, theoretically, every member of the society (perfect democracy), and usually depends on the education and technological level of the society.  For example, a democracy would not have worked back in the 12th century, because most people were not and could not be educated up to a level to make a significant rational choice, which left the smaller educated class of king and higher subjects to rule.
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A government of a few people is an oligarchy:  \nGovernment by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.\nThose making up such a government.\nA state governed by a few persons.
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Mark has it almost right.A democracy is the rule of the majority,or more succinctly,mob rule.In a constitutional republic(as in the U.S.),the people are represented by democratically elected representatives who meet at regular intervals to decide issues on behalf of the people,or representative mob rule.Just depends on how you look at it.
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It's  all in the government games we play.They make the rules up as they go.We the american people are little game pieces they move from square to square.
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democracy-government in which the people directly rule, has maximum tollerance toward religion and cultural identity stresses freedom of speach, stressed importance of innovation and success causses strong economy--draw backs; slow decision making, poor military strength\n\nrepublic-govenment in which elected representatives rule; great tolerance toward religion and cultural identity, stresses freedom of speech, stressed importance of innovation and success causses strong economy--draw backs: mediocre decision making, corruption pressent, weak to mediocre military strength\n\nmonarchy-government in which a hereditary monarchy rules; mediocre to poor tolerance, censored speech, mediocre innovative and sucsess drive makes mediorcre economic strength, good military strength--drawbacks: government does not cause excellent results in any catagory \n\ndespotism-government in which single autocrat rules usualy by being backed by the military and/or a secret police; generaly very low tollerance, heavily censored speach, distribution of wealth to close friends and poor motivation to excel causes economy to suffer, military strong--drawbacks: poor personal freedom causes civil unrest, week economy\n\nconstitutional monarchy-a government where a hereditary monarchy rules only with powers dictated by a constitution; fair to good tolerance, occational censorship of media, good personal freedom causes good economy, fair military--drawbacks:none major\n\noligarchy-govenment in which a council of plutocrats or hereditarily designated members rule; tolerance and free speech depends on benvolence of council, generaly good personal freedoms causes strong economy, weak military--drawbacks: instability of policy\n\ncommunism-govenment in which a premir("representing" the people but not elected by them) directs policy while a politiburo(central party commity) decides issues;no tolerance of religion or cultural identity, heavily censored media, poor personal freedom causes economy to suffer, military strong--drawbacks zero tolerance causes civil unrest, economy weak
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Something like this, I think:\nCapitalism is an economic system where the will of the market is law;\nDemocracy is a system of government where the expressed will of the majority of the people (or even, in states with more than two active political parties, often the will of the single largest minority) governs the laws that are made.\nPure capitalism allows for no system of checks and balances, no social intervention, no subsidised industry, healthcare, national assistance etc.\nPure democracy is the art of social engineering, essentially - people vote for a thing, the government makes a law, and suddenly there are things you can or cannot do. Capitalism, in its pure form, views this as an illegitimate restiction on the operation of a perfect market. So democracy really only works alongside capitalism as long as capitalism is compromised to let it work. Deomcracy could be said to be worried about being in bed with capitalism because if given its head, capitalism would put power in the hands of the market, rather than in the hands of the people.\n\nMake any kind of sense?
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In an autocratic government one person rules with unlimited power. That definition would include dictatorships. \n\nIn a democratic government a majority of people rule. Examples are New England town meetings, and the ancient Greek city states, where the citizens met together to decide on laws.\n \nIn a representative democracy, such as the U.S., the people elect representatives to make the laws that govern the citizens
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absolute monarchy (rule by one monarch or dictator), constitutional monarchy (represenattive rpublic with a monarch serving as head of state) oligarchy (rule by the few or party rule),represenative republic (rule by the masses through elections for representatives), democratic republic (rule by the masses directly by referendum), anarchy (mob rule) Legislative Executive and Judicial are the branches of government not the forms of government. totalitarianism, communism, socialism etc all fall into the above categories as party rule in the case of communism or totalatarianism or democratic republic in the case of socialism.
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A system like communism, where all the means of production ar econtrolled by the government. The government owns any business that operates domestically and thus controls who gets hired, and at what rate of pay, what hours they work, etc.\n\nIn the former Soviet Union, this went as far as the government deciding your profession for you.