Experience with those movements in power, and the strong ties they may have to particular forms of government, can cause them to be considered as forms of government in themselves. Other complications include general non-consensus or deliberate "distortion or bias" of reasonable technical definitions to political ideologies and associated forms of governing, due to the nature of politics in the modern era. For example: The meaning of "conservatism" in the United States has little in common with the way the word's definition is used elsewhere. As Ribuffo notes, "what Americans now call conservatism much of the world calls liberalism or neoliberalism"; a "conservative" in Finland would be labeled a "socialist" in the United States. Since the 1950s conservatism in the United States has been chiefly associated with the Republican Party. However, during the era of segregation many Southern Democrats were conservatives, and they played a key role in the Conservative Coalition that controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963. Opinions vary by individuals concerning the types and properties of governments that exist. "Shades of gray" are commonplace in any government and its corresponding classification. Even the most liberal democracies limit rival political activity to one extent or another while the most tyrannical dictatorships must organize a broad base of support thereby creating difficulties for "pigeonholing" governments into narrow categories. Examples include the claims of the United States as being a plutocracy rather than a democracy since some American voters believe elections are being manipulated by wealthy Super PACs. The Classical Greek philosopher Plato discusses five types of regimes: aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. Plato also assigns a man to each of these regimes to illustrate what they stand for. The tyrannical man would represent tyranny for example. These five regimes progressively degenerate starting with aristocracy at the top and tyranny at the bottom. One method of classifying governments is through which people have the authority to rule. This can either be one person (an autocracy, such as monarchy), a select group of people (an aristocracy), or the people as a whole (a democracy, such as a republic). Thomas Hobbes stated on their classification: The difference of Commonwealths consisteth in the difference of the sovereign, or the person representative of all and every one of the multitude. And because the sovereignty is either in one man, or in an assembly of more than one; and into that assembly either every man hath right to enter, or not every one, but certain men distinguished from the rest; it is manifest there can be but three kinds of Commonwealth
they lost a battle and they taxed the colonists
The British government did not have the same interests as the colonists.
The British government did not have the same interests as the colonists.
Most early state governments were representative while the British government was a monarchy.
The battlecry was "Taxation without representation". The British government imposed taxes upon the colonists; but the colonists had no say in what was taxed and by how much.
colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. british rights were defined by laws and tradition
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.
Colonists' rights were defined by formal documents. British rights were defined by laws and tradition.