They built 11 mounds at Spiro near the Arkansas River.
For Dictatorship, the second answer is incomplete, a dictator may obtain power not only through elections but by a military or institutional coup d'état, a civil war or a military intervention by a foreign power.
In a republic, power is held by those citizens that are able and government is a public matter (res publica in latin) to vote and the power comes from their vote during elections.
The limits of liberty: the legacy of the American Revolution. Women could not vote, nor could half a million slaves or over a hundred thousand Native Americans. Slavery and racial segregation remained a political and cultural fault line
