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Basic Forms of GovernmentRepublic, Democracy, Oligarchy, Monarchy, Anarchy : 

Basic Forms of GovernmentRepublic, Democracy, Oligarchy, Monarchy, Anarchy Based on the John Birch Society Video: The American Form of Government Presented for the Summer Education Program San Tan Valley – Queen Creek Tea Party Patriots

The United States of America : 

The United States of America “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

What do Americans Believe today? : 

What do Americans Believe today? Most Americans believe the United States’ form of Government is a Democracy What most people do not realize is the very important differences between a Democracy and a Republic form of government even though the word “democracy” is used by both liberals and conservatives . . . The word has different meanings

What are Political Systems? : 

What are Political Systems? The set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or a “state.” The term comprehends actual as well as prescribed forms of political behaviour, not only the legal organization of the state but also the reality of how the state functions. A set of “processes of interaction” or as a subsystem of the social system interacting with other nonpolitical subsystems, such as the economic system . . .

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums Mistaken Views of the Political Spectrum Communists Moderates Fascism

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums What are the real political spectrums? Total Government Power No Government Power 100% 0% Communism Socialism Nazism Fascism Princes Kings Dictators Etc.

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Nazism and Fascism on the Right or Left of the spectrum? The terms must be defined properly . . . Total Government Power No Government Power 100% 0% Communism Socialism Nazism Fascism Princes Kings Dictators Etc. Misplacement of Government forms in the Political Spectrum ?

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums What is found in the middle of the spectrum? Total Government Power No Government Power 100% 0% Communism Socialism Nazism Fascism Princes Kings Dictators Etc. Protecting the Rights of the People Constitutional Moderates

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums What are the forms of Government? Monarchy Oligarchy Democracy Republic Anarchy

Monarchy or Dictatorship : 

Monarchy or Dictatorship Rule By One . . . Doesn’t really exist Always a group that puts one of its members up front A king has his councils . . . A Dictator has his bureaucrats or commissars But this system is always governed by a group in reality

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums Monarchy is not a real form of Government . . . Monarchy Oligarchy Democracy Republic Anarchy X

Oligarchy : 

Oligarchy Ruled by a Group Most common form of Government historically and today Ruled by a Powerful few A legitimate form of government

Oligarchy Governments : 

Oligarchy Governments

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums Oligarchy is a real form of Government . . . Oligarchy Democracy Republic Anarchy

Anarchy : 

Anarchy Without Government Opposite side of the Spectrum A hatred for government and its crimes Some believe that it is best not to have a form of government

Ancient Greeks : 

Ancient Greeks Without law there can be no Freedom Anarchy does not work

Founding Fathers Agreed . . . : 

Founding Fathers Agreed . . . Some amount of government is anecessary force in any civilized orderly society . . .

Anarchy : 

Anarchy Every person must watch out for themselves Property is at risk Armed civilians Movement is restricted because you may lose what you leave behind at your property

Protectors of the People : 

Protectors of the People Civilized societies have always hired a protector or guardian Sheriff Police force A branch of government Law enforcement brings freedom Property is protected so people can go to work and travel

Proper Amount of Government : 

Proper Amount of Government The proper amount of Government makes everyone freer

Forced Anarchy : 

Forced Anarchy Some want anarchy not because they want no government, but because they do not like what they have Anarchy is used as a tool for revolutionary change Anarchy produces a vacuum . . . Once government is removed, something must replace it

Forced Anarchy : 

Forced Anarchy Rioting, looting, destroying businesses, terrorism All designed to bring about the change the anarchist want The people caught up in the disaster beg those who are ready to take over to save them and to restore order Who stops the chaos? The very people who started it

Anarchist Government : 

Anarchist Government Those who fill the void and take over then set up an oligarchy to rule with total power Lenin and the Bolsheviks Iranians and the students Hitler and the Brown Shirts Mao and many others

Anarchist Government : 

Anarchist Government Chaos introduces change and takeover It is only a temporary form of government It is only a temporary means for bringing about a new form of government It is not a legitimate government

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums Anarchy is not a real form of Government . . . Oligarchy Democracy Republic Anarchy X

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums Oligarchy Democracy Republic

Democracy : 

Democracy Two Greek words: Demos = People Kratein = To Rule The Rule of the People or Majority Rule

Democracy sounds good . . . : 

Democracy sounds good . . . But there are downsides . . . What if the majority wants to take away a persons home, business or even children? There has to be limits! The flaw: The Majority isn’t restrained! 51% can decide the fate of the other 49%

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums What about a Republic? Oligarchy Democracy Republic

Republic : 

Republic Two Latin words: Res = Thing Publica = Public The Public Thing or The Law

True Republic : 

True Republic The Government is limited by Law Leaving the people alone

Founding Fathers : 

Founding Fathers Wiped away tyranny They had a clean slate to write on Could have set up an Oligarchy George Washington could have been King! Founding fathers knew history Provided the Rule of Law instead A Republic was formed

Why a Republic and not a Democracy? : 

Why a Republic and not a Democracy? Democracy was shunned and hated by the Founding fathers

Law under Democracy : 

Law under Democracy Consider what happens in a Democracy when a horse thief is captured A Posse of 35 cowboys catches the horse thief In a democracy the posse can vote 34-1 to hang the horse thief Democracy has triumphed One less horse thief to contend with

Law under a Republic : 

Law under a Republic Consider what happens in a Republic when a horse thief is captured A Posse of 35 cowboys catches the horse thief In a Republic the posse can vote 34-1 to hang the horse thief But then the sheriff arrives and tells the posse you can’t kill the horse thief The horse thief has the right to a fair trial

Why a Republic and not a Democracy? : 

Why a Republic and not a Democracy? A jury of peers is chosen to decide the fate of the horse thief after evidence is presented The Jury must be unanimous or the defendant goes free The rights of the accused are sustained The Rule of Law prevails

Language used by the Founding Fathers : 

Language used by the Founding Fathers The word Democracy is not used in the: Declaration of Independence The US Constitution The Constitutions of the 50 States The founders did everything they could to not have a democracy

James Madison : 

James Madison The author of the US Constitution “Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.“

Alexander Hamilton : 

Alexander Hamilton “It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.”

Samuel Adams : 

Samuel Adams "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

Thomas Jefferson : 

Thomas Jefferson “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

Benjamin Franklin : 

Benjamin Franklin “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”

John Adams : 

John Adams “Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

History of Democracy : 

History of Democracy Founding Fathers knew the history of the Greek Democratic states Government excesses leads to mob rule, Anarchy, and then Tyranny under an Oligarchy

Greek Leader Solon : 

Greek Leader Solon Law needs to be written that is not subject to Majority rule and its whims and winds of change

Roman law : 

Roman law Romans followed Solon’s counsel Created Laws to limit government and to leave the people alone Freedom left people to excel in production and to keep the fruits of their labor Roams had wealth and envy of the world

Downfall of Rome : 

Downfall of Rome Forgot the value of their freedom They forgot that the essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government When government power grows the freedom of the people recedes Political parties and politicians seized the power away from the people

Fall of Rome : 

Fall of Rome Redistribution of property, government subsidies, housing and welfare programs, higher taxes to pay for government followed Profits declined, companies failed and mobocracy followed demanding bread and circuses

Fall of Rome : 

Fall of Rome Freedom was traded for security Republic collapsed which lead to a democracy which lead to an Oligarchy, which lead to the Caesars Aristotle "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

The Fallacy of Democracy : 

The Fallacy of Democracy Not a valid government Gradual transition between a limited government to the unlimited rule of an Oligarchy

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums Democracy is a transitional form of government . . . Oligarchy Democracy Republic X

Political Spectrums : 

Political Spectrums There are really only two choices . . . Oligarchy Republic

Which do you want? : 

Which do you want? An Oligarchy or a Republic? What are you going to do when you hear someone say your country is a Democracy? Why do certain Politicians, especially liberals use the word Democracy and not Republic?

Carl Marx : 

Carl Marx “Democracy is the road to socialism.”