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1)Democracy is a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership, and major undertakings of a state or other polity are directly or indirectly decided by the “people,” a group historically constituted by only a minority of the population (e.g., all free adult males in ancient Athens or all sufficiently ...
2)In a pure democracy, laws are made directly by the voting majority leaving the rights of the minority largely unprotected. In a republic, laws are made by representatives chosen the people and must comply with a constitution that specifically protects the rights of the minority from the will of the majority.
3)Many countries that use the term "democratic republic" in their official names (such as Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, North Korea, Laos, and Nepal) are considered undemocratic "hybrid regimes" or "authoritarian regimes" by the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index and "not free" by the ...
4)+++++++However, republics differ widely, with some operating under a presidential system, where the people directly or nearly-directly elect a president who is the head of the government; a parliamentary system, where the people elect a legislature who decides the executive branch; and even constitutional and parliamentary ...
5)In a democracy the government has less control over how people spend their time and what they believe. ... In a dictatorship the government tightly controls all aspects of the state and will often ban or tightly control groups and meetings. A dictatorship completely disregards the rights of individual citizens.
6)Totalitarian regimes are different from other authoritarian regimes, as the latter denotes a state in which the single power holder, usually an individual dictator, a committee, a military junta, or an otherwise small group of political elites, monopolizes political power.
7)Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler and the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin were the leading examples of such modern totalitarian dictatorships
8) Constitutional Monarchy vs parliamentary monarchy
With a Constitutional Monarchy, an elected or hereditary Monarch is the head of state (not a sole source of power). ... A majority of Constitutional Monarchies have a parliamentary system where the Monarch is the head of state, but there is a Prime Minister as head of Government.
9)In a theocracy, the power is in the hands of a deity or religious text. In a monarchy, the power is held by a ruling family or monarch. Power is passed down generationally. An oligarchy, like a monarchy, has just a few people who hold the power.
10) answer {B}
