Government Chapters

Governments can be constitutional monarchies, dictatorships, federal republics, parliamentary democracies, constitutional republics. More than a system of rules and regulations, they help civilized people to live together peacefully. These stories explore different forms of government.

Death comes slowly in a hanging cage; the accused is exposed to the elements and starved.

The Heretic's Fork is an extremely painful way to die. Being in a stock is less painful but could cause the person humiliation.

The Capitol creates the Hunger games to demonstrate their power over the districts.

After Union soldiers leave, the South resumes racial discrimination and segregation as a way of life.

The Iron Maiden is another form of intense suffering and slow death.

Of all the painful ways to be tortured, the Judas Cradle has to be one of the most painful ways to die.

While John F. Kennedy is president, his younger brother, Bobby Kennedy, is his Attorney General and trusted advisor.

To declare war with Germany in 1939, George VI gives a strong speech to millions of radio listeners without stammering.

Nine black high school students in Little Rock, Arkansas waged a successful campaing to attend public shool.

A democratic agreement forms the government for Plymouth, where the Pilgrims settle despite death and illnesses.

The Missouri Compromise allows a part of the former Louisiana Territory - admitted into the Union as a state called Missouri - to be a slave-holding s...

Justice Hunt does not allow the jury to reach a verdict but gives his own written statement at the conclusion of proofs in the Susan B. Anthony trial....

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