Word: despot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suspension. During these two days only is the Speaker an autocrat. As the Speaker is chosen from the members and is selected for pre-eminent talent, it is very natural that he should be the leader of the members. Mr. Cannon, the present Speaker, has often been called a despot, but he is a most benevolent despot...
...must choose a strict enforcement of the law with an honest police force or a lax enforcement of the law with its attendant corruption and black-mail, and that when you give a mayor discretion as to whether he shall enforce the law or not, he practically becomes a despot. Moreover, a lax enforcement of the law deprives it of its fundamental element of certainty because no man knows what the law will be from day to day. He concluded his speech by showing that respect for law can only be caused by its strict enforcement which is not only...