Which is the oldest form of government? (2024)

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In monarchy, the government is usually headed by a single person called a king or, sometimes, a queen. When the king or queen dies, the son, daughter or a relative takes over the government. A commoner cannot become a king. It is the oldest form of government.

San Marino claims to be the oldest constitutional republic in the world, founded on 3 September 301, by Marinus, a Christian stonemason fleeing the religious persecution of Roman Emperor Diocletian. San Marino's constitution, dating back to 1600, is the world's oldest written constitution still in effect.

The first states of sorts were those of early dynastic Sumer and early dynastic Egypt, which arose from the Uruk period and Predynastic Egypt respectively at approximately 3000BCE.

Tribe leaders were the first “governmental” entities, instructing the people in their tribe about what to do and where to go. They most likely had a way of enforcing their will, so that it was kind of like law. As history went on, this got progressively more organized. How did the idea of government come about?

The concepts (and name) of democracy and constitution as a form of government originated in ancient Athens circa 508 BCE.