CLAT |FORMS OF GOVERNMENT|ADHYAYAN IAS

Forms of Government 

If we are going to start form ancient period of time the king were called the person of God and all the persons living in the state were bound to accepts the law and order of Kind and its privilege to get the post of King as by birth. In modern world the concepts were going change due to Philosophical view and natural law of quality by birth and all others dimensions of world. Now in modern world there are different types of Governments. We will discuss one by one.

Monarchy

 A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication. The political legitimacy and authority of the monarch may vary from restricted and largely symbolic (constitutional monarchy), to fully autocratic (absolute monarchy), and can span across executive, legislative, and judicial domains.The succession of monarchs has mostly been hereditary, often building dynasties. However, elective and self-proclaimed monarchies have also often occurred throughout history. Aristocrats, though not inherent to monarchies, often serve as the pool of persons from which the monarch is chosen, and to fill the constituting institutions (e.g. diet and court), giving many monarchies oligarchic elements.

Aristocracy

Aristocracy (from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατίᾱ (aristokratíā) ‘rule of the best’; from ἄριστος (áristos) ‘best’, and κράτος (krátos) ‘power, strength’) is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.At the time of the word’s origins in ancient Greece, the Greeks conceived it as rule by the best-qualified citizensand often contrasted it favorably with monarchy, rule by an individual. The term was first used by such ancient Greeks as Aristotle and Plato, who used it to describe a system where only the best of the citizens, chosen through a careful process of selection, would become rulers, and hereditary rule would actually have been forbidden, unless the rulers’ children performed best and were better endowed with the attributes that make a person fit to rule compared with every other citizen in the polity.