What is a Theocracy..What is a Monarchy????

Question

Theocracy and Monarchy

i need the:

1) basic definition

2) an example

3) how it affects people

4) history

5) where its found today

for each

Answer 1

1.  a Theocracy is a country governed by religious order/laws/rule

    a Monarchy is a country governed by king or queen.

2. Monarchy--the United Kingdom, Japan, Sweden, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

    Theocracy--Iran, the Vatican, Afghanistan when it was ruled by the Taliban.

3.  depends on how lenient or strict the government is.

4.  of what?  Are you asking how either of them came into existence?  There is no short answer for this.  You'll have to do your research.

5.  see 2

Answer 2

Go to Wikipedia.....you can find a more reliable answer there in a shorter amount of time

Answer 3

A monarchy is a form of government headed by a king or queen regnant,in the absolute form.There is another form of government called a Constitutional Monarchy which has as it's head of state,a king or queen regnant,who works with an elected government.A good example of the later, is the UK.Queen Elizabeth II is a constitutional monarch.You can read about the history of the UK monarchy at http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4675....

A theocracy is is a form of government in which a 'god' or 'deity' is recognized as the supreme civil ruler. The ancient Egyptian pharaohs are an example;they were thought to be gods.Today,Iran and Saudi Arabia are good examples because governments are ruled by Islamic religious codes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy

says:"Theocracy is a form of government in which a 'god' or 'deity' is recognized as the supreme civil ruler. For believers, theocracy is a form of government in which divine power governs an earthly human state, either in a personal incarnation or, more often, via religious institutional representatives (i.e., a church), replacing or dominating civil government.[1] Theocratic governments enact theonomic laws.

Theocracy should be distinguished from other secular forms of government that have a state religion, or are merely influenced by theological or moral concepts, and monarchies held "By the Grace of God".

A theocracy may be monist in form, where the administrative hierarchy of the government is identical with the administrative hierarchy of the religion, or it may have two 'arms,' but with the state administrative hierarchy subordinate to the religious hierarchy.

Some democratic political parties and other organizations advocate reconstruction of governments as theocracies. See the article on the Islamic party. Other alleged examples include the Unification Church and Christian Reconstructionism."

On it's history: "

It was first coined by Josephus Flavius in the 1st century to describe the characteristic government for Jews. Josephus argued that while the Greeks recognized three types of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and anarchy, the Jews were unique in that they had a system of government that did not fit into those categories. Josephus understood theocracy as a fourth form of government in which only God and his law is sovereign. Josephus' definition was widely accepted until the enlightenment era, when the term started to collect more universalistic and undeniably negative connotations, especially in Hegel's hands.

The first recorded English use was in 1622, with the meaning "sacerdotal government under divine inspiration" (as in Biblical Israel before the rise of kings); the meaning "priestly or religious body wielding political and civil power" is recorded from 1825.

The word has been mostly used to label certain politically unpopular societies as somehow less rational or developed. The concept is used in sociology and other social sciences, but the term is often used inaccurately, especially in popular rhetoric.

In the most common usage of the term theocracy, some civil rulers are leaders of the dominant religion (e.g., the Byzantine Emperor as patron of the head of the official Church); the government claims to rule on behalf of God or a higher power, as specified by the local religion, and divine approval of government institutions and laws. These characteristics apply also to a Caesaropapist regime. The Byzantine empire however was not theocratic since the Patriarch answered to the Emperor, not vice versa; similarly in Tudor England the crown forced the church to break away from Rome so the royal (and, especially later, parliamentary) power could assume full control of the now Anglican hierarchy and confiscate most church property and income."

You can read the complete entry for yourself at the above link.

Answer 4

To add to what B. E. C. has noted, "theocracy" comes from the Greek "theo" (meaning god) + "cracy" (meaning form of government). Thus, a theocracy is literally the rule of God, or to stretch this definition a bit, theocracy is divinely inspired government. "Monarchy" comes from the Greek "mono" (meaning one) + "cracy" (meaning form of government), so a monarchy is literally the government led by a single individual.  

During the period of the Judges in the Old Testament (between 1200 -1020 BCE), after the Israelites conquered Canaan, the Hebrews had no high priest or synagogue, and no central government authority acted as a ruler; under pure Mosaic law, they were directly ruled by God.  

Other governments throughout history have called themselves theocracies. Most notably, the Puritan-led English Republic, under the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell (1648-1660), considered itself a theocracy just as Muslim governments, such as Saudi Arabia, ruling under Sharia law today, consider themselves theocracies.  These governments may--or may not--be divinely inspired, but obviously, in each case, God's self-appointed representatives take it upon themselves to rule in Jehovah or Allah's place--with imperfect results.

A monarchy may be absolute, for example, the rule of Henry VIII, or constitutional, for instance, the reign of the Emperor in present-day Japan or the reign of the Queen of the United Kingdom. In a constitutional monarchy, the queen or king reigns rather than rules.  He or she acts as the executive--and in large part--ceremonial and inspirational branch of government, leading by example and inspiration, while the day-to-day work of governing is left to the legislative (parliamentary) and judicial branches of government.

Usually, primogeniture determines who reigns or rules, meaning kings and queens inherit their titles by birthright even if they once claimed to rule by "the divine right of kings". During periods of great civil unrest or in preliterate societies, tanistry sometimes established the right to rule.  Under this system, a council chose the best candidate from a field of candidates who were usually part of the same clan or family.  Occasionally, when this "beauty contest winner" performed feats of skill or strength, he helped the council select the God-ordained King (no one at this point evern chose a woman); for example, the mythical King Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone and thus became the King of Camelot. The Native Americans chose their chiefs this way, and so did the Celtic kings of Ireland and Scotland.

There isn't much difference between an absolute monarch during the Middle Ages or in Ancient Egypt, China, or Babylon and a contemporary dictator except in name as well as possible the time period in which the ruler governs.