A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
1 Such chances for Cæsarism as the island of Corsica afforded were very rapidly becoming better.
2 And you will see it; you will see Caesarism drowned in the very blood it has shed.
3 We didn't take into account the fact that the Republic dealt harshly with anyone who practiced Caesarism .
4 Blish's Twenty-First Century: The Coming of Caesarism
5 But this is rank and undisguised Caesarism .
6 What will be surely destroyed is Caesarism .
7 That way lies dictatorship and Caesarism .
8 Overlegislation, whether by an autocrat or a democratic state, leads straight to revolution, to Caesarism , or to slavery.
9 The condition of Cæsarism is the control of physical force; Gaius Gracchus fell because he had not that essential control.
10 Yet in France, territorial democracy the most complete results only in establishing the most complete imperial centralism, usually called Caesarism .
11 For on revolution follows Cæsarism as W follows U-thatis the rule in the A B C of the world's history.
12 In that attitude, he declared suddenly that the highest expression of democracy was Caesarism : the imperial rule based upon the direct popular vote.
13 This popular philosophy is utterly despotic and anti-democratic; this fashion is the flower of that Caesarism against which I am concerned to protest.
14 Absolutism or Caesarism is only adapted to people in primitive or anarchical states of society,-asin old Rome, or Rome under the popes.
15 In a few years it passed from the Revolution to Caesarism , returned to the monarchy, effected another Revolution, and then summoned a new Caesar.
16 Neither does he indulge us, like Brazil, with the sight of an emperor, or even with cæsarism in the dilute form of a crown prince.
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