| Government is the political system by which a{{U}} (1)
{{/U}}or community is administered and regulated． Most of{{U}} (2) {{/U}}key words commonly used to describe governments, words {{U}}(3) {{/U}}as monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy, are of Greek{{U}} (4) {{/U}}Roman origin. They have been current for more{{U}} (5) {{/U}}2,000 years and have not yet exhausted their {{U}}(6) {{/U}}. This suggests that mankind has not changed very{{U}} (7) {{/U}}since they were coined; but such verbal and{{U}} (8) {{/U}}uniformity must not be allowed to hide the{{U}} (9) {{/U}}changes in society and politics that have occurred.{{U}} (10) {{/U}}earliest analytical use of the term monarchy occurred{{U}} (11) {{/U}}ancient Athens, chiefly in Plato's dialogues, but even{{U}} (12) {{/U}}Plato's time the word was not self-explanatory. There{{U}} (13) {{/U}}a king in Macedon and a king in Persia,{{U}} (14) {{/U}}the two societies, and therefore their institutions,{{U}} (15) {{/U}}radically different. To give real meaning to the{{U}} (16) {{/U}}monarchy in these two instances, it would be {{U}}(17) {{/U}}to investigate their actual political and historical contexts.{{U}} (18) {{/U}}general account of monarchy required then, and requires{{U}} (19) {{/U}}, an inquiry as to what circumstances have predisposed{{U}} (20) {{/U}}to adopt monarchy, and what have led them to reject it. So it is with all political terms. |