Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for such secrecy seems to be a general revulsion against the self-glorification of Kassem's four-year dictatorship. "We revolted against the cult of personality,'I explained new Foreign Minister Talib Hussein Shabib. 32. To the key question of who is boss of the new Iraq, the answer seems to be: at the moment, no one man. President Aref cannot make major decisions without the concurrence of the mysterious National Council...
...moment that government becomes remote, distant, mysterious, and beyond the comprehension of the people themselves, danger arises, and we subject ourselves to the possibility of abuse of power and ultimate dictatorship. When the United States of America was formed and the Constitution was written, the people were insistent in demanding that local government be forever preserved in all of its dignity and all of its safeguards. In the drafting of the Constitution, it was specifically provided that the right and authority of the states to conduct their own affairs should be preserved inviolate and there was conferred upon the federal...
There is no such thing as a vacuum in politics or government. If the rights of a sovereign state and local units of government are taken away, they will be replaced by a totalitarian government--a police state. Only our Constitution stands between the people and a dictatorship. If politicians are allowed to circumvent, misconstrue, cripple or disobey the Constitution, then Constitutional government is in jeopardy and the liberty and freedom and right of every American citizen to the pursuit of happiness are menaced...
...have some opinions of the motley reactionaries who are picketing this meeting," Hargis said. "In this city, the cradle of freedom, I see here the seeds of vicious dictatorship. I wonder if these groups would be so concerned if this was a pacifist rally...
...serious challenge to Inonu's leadership, but the wily Premier had a powerful reply. He told the rebel sympathizers that he would quit if their petition was approved. That would bring back the army dictatorship. In the showdown vote, only ten delegates dared to oppose Inonu, and some 150 abstained. The rest obviously agreed that Ismet Inonu was still indispensable...