What is the best type of gorvement?

Question

these are the choice the teacher gave us
Theocracy
Oligarchy
Aristocracy
Democracy
Republic
Monarchy

also why is it the best

but im looking wat
was better in the ancient times

but im looking wat
was better in the ancient times

Answer 1

There is no best, it is just a matter of opinion.

Answer 2

Republic - It ensure's citizen have a say in the running of the country (by having citizens elect the leaders and having the leaders serve set terms so they can be held accountable to the people) while still protecting rights of minority (unlike a true democracy where majority would win on everything).

Democracy would be second, but it is unrealistic in most national settings given that people would spend their whole lives voting in a true democracy. This is why there is no country that has a true democracy. In very small communities, however, a democracy could work well.

Answer 3

I think democracy is best because the people rule. Unlike a republic, which is ruled by elected representatives (who often don't put the people's interests first), a democracy is controlled by the people, of the people and for the people. While some will say that constitutes 'mob rule', they're wrong. With today's technologies, democracy can work very effectively for all citizens. -RKO- 10/12/07

P.S. My second choice would be a government similar to that in the Kingdom of Bhutan, where the country doesn't even acknowledge a Gross National Product (GNP) and - instead - gives priority to Gross National Happiness (GNH) of the populace.

Answer 4

since our Republic is working in the worst possible way, and Democracy is not our form of government. I don't know anymore.

if the US had a Democracy, there would be a different president, but because of the Republic we have a shrub..

in acceint times, i would say a republic, Rome had a Republic and they seemed to do well in history, but I also think some kind of monarchy helped in that because the Ceasar gave the republic rule.. if that makes any sense

Answer 5

"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
-Sir Winston Churchill

Otherwise Plutocracy seems to be working fine here right now.

Answer 6

Republic

Roosevelt ruined that though...

This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty. As our Nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness. We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all…

Among these new rights, Roosevelt said, are “The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries, or shops or farms or mines of the Nation; The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad; The right of every family to a decent home; The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health; The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment; The right to a good education.”

The Constitution had established a limited government which presupposed an autonomous civil society and a free economy. But such freedom had led inevitably to social inequality, which in Roosevelt’s view had made Americans insecure in a way that was unacceptable. He had lost faith in the older constitutional principle of limited government. Rather, he thought that the protection of political rights—or of social and economic liberty, exercised by individuals unregulated by government—had made it impossible to establish a foundation for social justice, i.e., what he called “equality in the pursuit of happiness.” He assumed that a fundamental tension exists between equality and liberty that can only be resolved by a powerful, even unlimited, administrative or welfare state.

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2007&month=03

As we now have a socialist democracy:

Democracy has been called "two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" and I think it sums it up nicely.

A "hand-out" system will eventually corrupt even the best work ethic of the most respectable germanics, but for minorities it is a free-for-all. The poor will always outnumber the rich and when the poor are given the same amount of voting power as the rich it is only a matter of time until they vote themselves the national treasury. The framers of the American Constitution understood this and only allowed land-owning males the right to vote because they understood that only those who have a vested interest in the affairs of the government should have a say in government.

The greatest fallacy in the world is to give someone who can't make money, buy land, or lead a normal life a say in government. What makes people believe that individuals who are failures are going to make a wise choice altogether, I will never know. Governments don't run on good intentions but are governed by the same laws of nature that guide everything else here on earth; governments cannot take blood from a stone nor can they create wealth, they really only consume wealth.

When governments start taking orders from those who can't even balance their own checkbook, we know the end is near. All Democracies have ended in a dictatorship because one day the "free lunch" is over and someone has to stand up and say this and be prepared to "bash some heads" when the hangovers start from the democracy/socialism induced free-for-all.

Answer 7

They are all not very good, but democracy is the lesser evil. It is the best by virtue of empowering it's citizens to ellect representatives that will (in theory) represent their opinions. This type of government generally considers the greater good.

Answer 8

If you are looking for ancient times then you should have known the term republlic was in reallity reSpublic?

Answer 9

I'm biased....but republic. But it doesn't mean others aren't necessary at different times. Nothing is perfect. Each and ever one, served there purpose, at that time, for those people. It's when you push something off on others that doesn't fit their situation that causes problems....or when those in power get too big for their britches and abuse people.

Answer 10

"Democracy is the worst kind of government, accept for all the other ones" Winston Churchill.