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| characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority |
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| voluntary associations of independent states, to secure some common purpose, agree to certain limitations on their freedom of action and establish some joint machinery of consultation or deliberation |
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| characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between on central and several regional authorities |
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| government in which one person possesses unlimited power and the citizen has little if any role in the government |
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| government by the few, sometimes in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes; citizen has a very limited role |
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| a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections |
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| a system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to legislature; may have a Prime Minister elected by the legislature |
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| a system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature |
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| system of government in which one person reigns, usually a king or queen; generally inherited; the monarch is often only the head of state, not the head of government |
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| nation or state in which the clergy exercise political power and in which religious law is dominant over civil law |
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