Multiple choice

What is the most accurate description of an autocratic government?

  1. Power is divided among the national government and state

  2. Leaders rule with the consent of citizens

  3. A small group of people have the power to govern

  4. One holds power to rule
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D Correct answer
Explanation

An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are not subject to external legal restraints or regularized mechanisms of popular control.

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