The first foundational civil ordinance of government

Such a government where God rules directly.

Rule by many.

A totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler.

Rule by a single family.

Law in which rulers have come to believe that when a law is made, the only reason to obey the law is that they have made it.

Rule by one

Ruled directly by popular vote.

Short for national socialism, and was a form of racist fascism that dominated Germany.

The "Sun King" Louis XIV of France said "I am the state" and as a ruler was an example of this form of government.

Another name for the Ten Commandments.

When a ruler receives his position by inheritance.

The "golden mean".

A system in which the monarch has unlimited power.

Queen Victoria, England's longest reigning monarch was a ruler and example of this form of government.

This Founding Father believed that the rights of the American people were founded on God's law and the teachings of Christ.

A system of government in which the ruler acquires his power by some means other than inheritance and rules with absolute authority.

The people rule indirectly through elected representatives.

Systems of government in which the monarch's power is limited by a constitution and is equal to or subservient to an elected representative assembly.

The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was an example of totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler, and this form of government.

Codified Sumerian laws named after a Babylonian king and contemporary of the Hebrew patriarchs.

A system of government control over the economy of a nation, which can be communist or fascist.

A form of government in which the people and their representatives are limited by a constitution.

The belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain.

A totalitarian dictatorship by one of more persons that advocates the violent, revolutionary overthrow of the existing economic, political, and social order and sets up a tyrannical sate that dominate the person, property and thought of all the citizens by means of physical and psychological force and terror (coercion).