Aristotle defined democracy as a system of government where power is vested in the hands of the people as a whole, or in a significant portion of them, through a voting process to make decisions for the common good.
China has a Monarchical form of government where the head of the government only has the power to take decisions while India has a Democratic form of government where the public has the right to take their own decisions and their own representatives to the parliament.
An authoritarian system of government is one where the leader makes all the decisions without consulting the people. This can be a very efficient style of government, but people have no input.
A totalitarian state or a Dictatorship (this is where all power lies with government, decisions are made by one person or party. There are no elections)
Democracy (democratic)
where the power of the government is shared.
A totalitarian state or a dictatorship (this is where all power lies with government, decisions are made by one person or party. There are no elections)
Philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that government decisions should be based on reason, individual rights, and the pursuit of the common good. They emphasized the importance of a social contract between the ruler and the governed, with power derived from the consent of the people.
There is no real power by democratic people. While they have real "power" to elect and collectively make decisions, the power roots from the decisions themselves and those who are elected to make decisions. Democracy is the weakest form of government.
the government was theocratic and the church had all power to make decisions. Power was also given to the state but by the church.
A unitary system of government is a type of government where power is centralized. When power is shared between a central government and local governments, this is referred to as a federal system of government.
The legislative branch of government makes laws and passes those laws to the judicial branch of government. These laws that were made and passed is what gives power to the judicial system of the courts.