A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
1 And you will see it; you will see Caesarism drowned in the very blood it has shed.
2 We didn't take into account the fact that the Republic dealt harshly with anyone who practiced Caesarism .
3 Blish's Twenty-First Century: The Coming of Caesarism
4 But this is rank and undisguised Caesarism .
5 What will be surely destroyed is Caesarism .
6 That way lies dictatorship and Caesarism .
7 Overlegislation, whether by an autocrat or a democratic state, leads straight to revolution, to Caesarism , or to slavery.
8 Yet in France, territorial democracy the most complete results only in establishing the most complete imperial centralism, usually called Caesarism .
9 In that attitude, he declared suddenly that the highest expression of democracy was Caesarism : the imperial rule based upon the direct popular vote.
10 This popular philosophy is utterly despotic and anti-democratic; this fashion is the flower of that Caesarism against which I am concerned to protest.
11 Absolutism or Caesarism is only adapted to people in primitive or anarchical states of society,-asin old Rome, or Rome under the popes.
12 In a few years it passed from the Revolution to Caesarism , returned to the monarchy, effected another Revolution, and then summoned a new Caesar.
13 Such chances for Cæsarism as the island of Corsica afforded were very rapidly becoming better.
14 The condition of Cæsarism is the control of physical force; Gaius Gracchus fell because he had not that essential control.
15 For on revolution follows Cæsarism as W follows U-thatis the rule in the A B C of the world's history.
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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