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Dictatorship

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A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator, without hereditary ascension. It has three possible meanings:

1. A Roman dictator was a political office of the Roman Republic.Roman dictators were allocated absolute power during times of emergency. Their power was originally neither arbitrary nor unaccountable, being subject to law and requiring retrospective justification. There were no such dictatorships after the beginning of the 2nd century BC, and later dictators such as Sulla and the Roman Emperors exercised power much more personally and arbitrarily.
2. A government controlled by one person or a small group of people.
3. In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state.

Among the most extreme examples of a dictatorship in recent history was Germany from 1933 to 1945. During this period, Germany was under the dictatorial rule of Adolf Hitler

Forsome scholars, dictatorship is a form of government that has the powerto govern without consent of those being governed, while totalitarianism describes a state that regulates nearly every aspect of public andprivate behavior of the people. In other words, dictatorship concerns the source of the governing power (where the power comes from) and totalitarianism concerns the scope of the governing power (what is the government). In this sense, dictatorship (government without people's consent) is a contrast to democracy (government whose power comes from people) and totalitarianism (government controls every aspect of people's life) opposes pluralism(governmentallows multiple lifestyles and opinions). Though thedefinitions of theterms differ, they are related in reality as most of the dictatorship states tend to show totalitarian characteristics. When governments' power does not come from the people, their power is not limited and tend to expand their scope of power to control every aspectof people's life.

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• 1 Examples of distinctive titles adopted by dictators
  • 1.1 In the 1930s and 1940s
  • 1.2 Postwar Era and the Cold War
    • 1.2.1 Individual cases
• 2 Dictatorships in fiction
• 3 See also
• 4 Further reading
• 5 References

Lyrics

You know I did it
It's over and I feel fine
Nothing you can say's gonna change my mind
Waited and I waited the longest night
Nothing like the taste of sweet decline
I went down, I fell, I fell so fast.
Dropping like the grains in an hourglass
Never say forever, cause nothing lasts
Dancing with the bones to my buried past
Nevermind, there's nothing I can do
Bet your life there's something killing you

Chorus:
It's a shame we have to die, my dear
No one's getting out of here alive this time
What a way to go, but have no fear
No one's getting out of here alive this time

I'm finished
I'm getting you off my chest
I made you come clean in a dirty dress
A promise is a promise
You're kept in check
Hard to cross a heart that beats it's fists
Take a good hard look for the very last time
The very last one in a very long line
Only took a second to say goodbye
Been a pleasure, but the pleasure's been mine all mine

Nevermind, there's nothing I can do
Bet your life there's something killing you

Chorus:
It's a shame we have to die, my dear
No one's getting out of here alive this time
What a way to go, but have no fear
No one's getting out of here alive this time

Ain't no way
D.O.A. x2

Take a good hard look for the very last time
The very last one in a very long line
Only took a second to say goodbye
Been a pleasure, but the pleasure's been mine all mine

Nevermind, there's nothing I can do
Bet your life there's something killing you

Chorus:
It's a shame we have to die, my dear
No one's getting out of here alive this time
What a way to go, but have no fear
No one's getting out of here alive this time

It's a shame we have to disappear
No one's getting out of here alive this time
This time x2

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"God Bless America" sung by Celine Dion

Lyrics:
God bless America, Land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above
From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.

Jim Allen III