Oligarchy

Ronald Reagan once said “Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” Yet some types of governments disagree. They believe that it is the governments job to run their lives. Dictatorship and almost every other type of government disagrees with Reagan. The type of government that agrees with him is democracy. Even though many people may not agree, representative democracy is the best government type because it supports rights of people, the participation of the…

Aristotle’s good forms of regime are kingship, aristocracy and polity while his bad forms of regime are tyranny, oligarchy and democracy. Aristotle describes kingship as the good form of tyranny as they’re each ruled by one man but the goals of those in power are drastically different. Kings are…

An oligarchical government is run by a small group of people. In most cases, the small group consists of military leaders, wealthy landowners or royalty. Several examples of an oligarchy include the former Soviet Union, South Africa and China. The United States is sometimes described as being oligarchical in nature because of the positions of power the wealthy hold. Although an oligarchical government is not the most common type of government system, it speeds up federal decisions, generally…

403 BCE was especially important, because it changed from the oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants, established by Sparta after the Peloponnesian War to a radical democracy. The radical democracy was successful and remained the shape of the Athenian government for around a hundred years. Athenians went through many government structures on their trip to democracy. They started with a king in the 700s BCE, then switched to an oligarchy, then Solon came to power and made democratic reforms and…

In today’s society, women’s right to vote is indisputable, but in the late eighteen hundreds, it was the complete opposite. Susan Brownwell Anthony, a pioneer progresser of women’s suffrage, lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In her speech, On Women’s Right to Vote, Anthony advocates that women, who are also citizens, deserve to vote and not be punished for practicing a Constitutional right. She writes this speech to justify her reason for voting, and to persuade others to…

of these city states shared the same religion and did in fact speak Greek each in many ways had its own unique identity and therefor, created its own style of government. The Four main governments that were established were Monarchy, Democracy, Oligarchy and Tyranny. Monarchy is defined as “A supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person.” From around 2000-800 B.C most Greek city states were indeed monarchies. In 1400…

several forms of government in Ancient Greek city-states. The most famous being democracy which originated from one of the most prominent and influential city-states known as Athens. Other forms of government in Ancient Greek city states included oligarchy, tyranny, aristocracy and monarchy. I will begin by looking at the definitions of each of these forms of government. Democracy can be defined as “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically…

However, they had two very different world views on democracy and oligarchy. This led to conflicting views on the tasks and goals of political leaders as well as how dignified the polis was at running a republic by a democracy and or an oligarchy. They posed some very arguments. We will discuss those arguments and how they conflicted and which one had the more convincing argument. Let us describe what democracy and oligarchy are defined. In a democracy, “arises out of the notion that…

many more poleis in between both which, even though belittled by Sparta and Athens, triumphed in creating their own governmental structures. There were five main types of governmental structures in Ancient Greece; Monarchy, Aristocracy, Tyranny, Oligarchy, and Democracy. In the following, we will go through the individualistic characteristics that make each governmental system unique or similar. Monarchy Governments that are ruled by a single king or queen is called a monarchy. The king and…

regime transitions. In these frameworks, Plato and Aristotle both agree on five regime types: kingship, the rule of a virtuous person; timocracy or aristocracy, the rule of a group of virtuous people; tyranny, the rule of an individual by force; oligarchy, the rule of…