Systems and Forms of Government:This lesson is Part II of our look at āsystems of government,ā such as Federal, Unitary & Parliamentary, and āformsā of government. Forms of Government examines: direct democracy, representative democracy, absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, socialism, communism, autocracy, and oligarchy. Students will learn how Ancient Athens developed the first democracy, but that it was a direct democracy. They will learn how the United States has a representative d