Government: Difference between revisions

Making this article fit into electowiki better, as well as linking to W:Boston Tea Party and W:Burr–Hamilton duel
(Copying list of types of government, mostly from w:List of forms of government)
(Making this article fit into electowiki better, as well as linking to W:Boston Tea Party and W:Burr–Hamilton duel)
 
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AccordingA to'''government''' is the system or group of people governing an organized community. See [[w:Government]] over on [[English Wikipedia]]: to find many more words on this topic.<ref>See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Government&oldid=1064492450 ([[w:Government]])</ref>:
 
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and [[judiciary]]. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. Each government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy.
According to [[English Wikipedia]]:<ref>See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Government&oldid=1064492450 ([[w:Government]]</ref>:
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A '''government''' is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a [[State (polity)|state]].
 
Back in 1773 or so, the [[United States]] started getting crazy ideas about "self-governance", and [[W:Boston Tea Party|many rich, white guys got all upset about taxes]]. Then of course, they put in their own government, and [[W:Burr–Hamilton duel|started getting upset with each other]]. No one is really sure how that experiment ended.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and [[judiciary]]. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. Each government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy.
 
Regardless, here's a few forms of government:
While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically, to refer to the approximately 200 [[List of sovereign states|independent national governments]] and subsidiary organizations.
 
Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, [[aristocracy]], [[timocracy]], [[oligarchy]], [[democracy]], [[theocracy]] and [[Tyrant|tyranny]]. The main aspect of any philosophy of government is how political power is obtained, with the two main forms being [[election|electoral contest]] and [[hereditary succession]].
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* [[Anarchy]]
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* [[Parliamentary system]]
* [[Unitary state]]
 
== Footnotes ==
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