Posted by
Maliginerf on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:00:00 AM
For some it may have been a while since reading over the definition of different government styles. So as a reminder to us all i went to Webster's dictionary and collected some terms. Lets see which of these deffinitions might best describe what this country is suppose to be as set out by our Constitiutuion and what those on the left want our government to be.
Government Definitions
1. Federalism- the distribution of power in an organization (as a government) between a central authority and the constituent units
2. Centralism- the concentration of power and control in the central authority of an organization
3. Democracy- government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
4. Republic-(1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit <the French Fourth Republic>
5. Marxism-the political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Marx; especially : a theory and practice of socialism including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society
6. Communism-1 a : a theory advocating elimination of private property b : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
2 capitalized a : a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics b : a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production c : a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably d : communist systems collectively
7. Socialism-any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
8. Fascism- a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
9. Nazism- the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer