10 GOVERNMENTS., POLITICAL DIVISIONS.
116, What is a Tributary or Afluent ? [
A. A river which flows into another river.
117. What is a Firth or Estuary?
4. The widening of a tidal river as it approaches
its mouth.
118, What is a Canal ?
A. A large trench dug in the earth, and filled
with water, to float boats from one place to
another.
LESSON XII.
GOVERNMENTS.
119. What are the two prineipal forms of Government at
present existing in the world ?
A. Monarchical and Republican Governments,
120. What is a Monarchy ?
A. That form of government which places the
3upreme power in the hands of one person.
121. What is an Absolute Monarchy ?
A. A government in which the will of the ruler
is the highest law.
122, What is a Limited Monarchy ? ,
A. A government in which the power of the
ruler is limited by fixed laws.
124. What is a Democracy ?
A. That form of government in which the su-
preme power is in the hands of the people at
large.
125. What is a Republic ?
A. A country or state whose laws are enacted
by representatives eleeted by the people. +
THE PRESIDENT RECKEIVING VISITORS.
126. What is the title of the chief officer of a Republie ?
A. A President or Governor.
127. What title is applied to the ruler of a Monarchy ?
A. King or Queen, to the ruler of a kingdom ;
Emperor, Czar, Sultan, or Mogul, to the ruler of
an empire.
LESSON XIV.
POLITICAL DIVISIONS.
CORONATION OF QUEEN VYICTORILA.
123. What is an Aristocracy ?
A. A government conducted by a few persons,
called nobles.
NorTg.—There is no purely arlatoeratic government now in existence ; Great
Britain is partly so, the House of Lords being ‚mostly composcd of a class
called the nobility,
128. What is an Empire ?
A. The territory or country under a sovereign
salled an Emperor.,
129. What is a Kingdom ?
A. A country ruled by a King or Queen,
130. What is a State ?
A. A division of a republic, united with others
in a general government, but independent in re-
yard to its own local affairs.
Norz.—Most countries are divided, for administrative purposes, into Prov-
nces, Distriets, Countics or Shires ; these in the United States are usually
Arain divided into Tawnships, sometimes called Towns.
