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    FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

    History attest that from one period to another, different forms of government have risen and
    fallen. Governments may be classified from different view.

    I. As to the number of persons exercising the power of sovereignty


    A. MONARCHY
     This form of government vests the exercise of sovereign power in one person or ruler.
    TWO KINDS OF MONARCHIAL GOVERNMENT:
    1. Absolute, Arbitrary or Despotic Monarchy
    2. Limited Constitutional or Parliamentary Monarchy
    B. ARISTOCRACY or OLIGARCHY
     This form of government vests sovereign power upon few persons or class.
     “It is a government by the few in their own interests, and more correctly by the wealthy”
    (Aristotle).
    C. DEMOCRACY
     It is a government in which the sovereign power is vested in the majority of people.
     It is one in which the sovereign power rests in the hands of the people, but is exercised by the
    representatives, either chosen by popular vote or appointed by those chosen. (Garner)
    KINDS OF DEMOCRACY:
    1. Direct, Real or Pure Democracy
    2. Representative or Republican Democracy
    II. As to source of power
    A. HEREDITARY
     The monarch inherits the crown according to a fixed rule of succession, determined either
    by a constitution, or act of parliament, or by the rule of dynastic house or family to which
    the monarch belong.
    B. ELECTIVE
     The few voters elect the monarch or ruler.
    III. As to how the power is distributed
    A. UNITARY GOVERNMENT
     It is a form of Government where the whole power of government is conferred by
    Constitution upon a single organ or organs from which the local government derive
    whatever authority or autonomy they possess, including their existence.
     There is no constitutional division or distribution of powers between the central
    government or the state and the subordinate local governments.
     Power of local governments are delegated by the central government, which may be
    enlarged or contracted.
    B. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
     It is a system of government in which the totality of government power is divided and
    distributed by the Constitution to the organized act between the central government and
    governments of the individual states or to her territorial subdivisions of which the federal
    states composed.

    C. CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT
     It is a system of government in which each member of the state of a confederation retains
    its own sovereignty and has such form of government as it chooses, there being a common
    central government or organization only or mainly for their mutual support and defense.
    IV. As to how they function
    A. PATERNALISTIC GOVERNMENT
     It is one whose function are not limited merely to restraining wrong doing and protecting
    private rights but goes further to promote the various means of improving the well-being of
    the people.
    B. INDIVIDUALISTIC GOVERNMENT
     It is one whose activities are limited mainly to simple police functions, maintain peace,
    order and security of society, both internal and external and the protection of private rights.
     The government undertakes less regulatory activities under the regime of laizzes faire.
    C. CABINET GOVERNMENT
     This is also known as Parliamentary Government.
    D. PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT
     It is a form of democratic government where the executive (President) is constitutionally
    independent of the legislative (Congress), in respect to the duration of his term or tenure.
    V. As to its legality or constitutionality
    A. DE JURE GOVERNMENT
     It is one, which has the general support of the people and exists according to the
    constitutional or other legal process.

    B. DE FACTO GOVERNMENT
     It is one which does not have the general support of the people but not its existence in
    accordance with the Constitution.
     It may have been installed by peaceful or forceful means within the country or by invading
    forces of belligerent military occupants.

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