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n. - A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.).

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  • Calling executive actions with which you do not agree "Caesarism" is in reality a high brow version of calling conservatives Nazis.
  • The term Caesarism is used as a pejorative, denoting any form of "military or imperial dictatorship; political authoritarianism" (The American Heritage?
  • Under present conditions, democratic equality ends inevitably in Caesarism.
  • Not so Caesarism, which is a slow, organic growth within a society tending toward democratic equality.
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