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8 Cards in this Set
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Anarchy
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Absence of any form of political authority
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Theocracy
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A government ruled by or subject to religious authority
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Democracy
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A government in which citizens hold the power to rule
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Dictatorship
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A government controlled by one person of a small group of people
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Absolute Monarchy
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A government in which a monarch (king/queen) has unlimited power to rule his or her people
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Socialism
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Economic system in which government owns some factors of production and distributes the products and wages
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Communism
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Economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions
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Representative Republic
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A representative government in which no leaders inherit office
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