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If all power is held by a single person, such a government is called a DICTATORSHIP. However, if it is held by a small group of people, the government is usually called an OLIGARCHY.

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Dictatorship.

A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator. It has three possible meanings:

  1. A Roman dictator was the incumbent of 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 asSulla and the Roman Emperors exercised power much more personally and arbitrarily.
  2. A government controlled by one person, or a small group of people. In this form of government the power rests entirely on the person or group of people, and can be obtained by force or by inheritance. The dictator(s) may also take away much of its peoples' freedom.
  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.
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A dictatorship or an oligarchy is a government that is controlled by one person or a small group of people.

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Absolute monarchy, despotism, dictatorship, fascism...

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Dictatorship ~APEX~ ;) it is called a dictator ship

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This form of government is called a dictatorship.

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AUTOCRACY

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