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Re: [bpfk] The powers you give me I will lay down when this crisis has been abated!



Lindar scripsit:

> This is a very interesting concept indeed. A parliamentary
> dictatorship whose election is based on effort put forth... Long reign
> King Uncle Robin!

When the Roman Republic got into Really Serious Trouble, the Senate
would pass a resolution "that the consuls shall see to it that the
State takes no harm."  That was their clue to appoint a Dictator,
against whose decrees there was no right of appeal.

His term expired after six months.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
You cannot enter here.  Go back to the abyss prepared for you!  Go back!
Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.  Go! --Gandalf

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