Introduction
In any given institution, there must be one individual who exercises his authority over his subjects. The same applies to the government. Various nations all over the world have been recognized to be having a government that comprises of the members of parliament plus the overall advisor who is the president. Presidents in different countries have nearly all of their responsibilities similar (Cooper, 15).
The only thing that can differentiate them is the way of ruling. Some leaders have been noticed to be ruling democratically while others have been known to exercise their duties autocratically. This article will concentrate on the autocratic part of the ruling. Dictatorship in essence is a form of ruling in which a nation is governed by an individual who rules in tyranny. This kind of ruling is always considered by most people as an unlawful way of exercising his power. This article seeks to elucidate widely and fully on dictatorship with special emphasis on the presidency (Horn, 15).
Explanations on presidential dictatorship
Individuals who rule in a dictatorship are mostly referred to as dictators or rather a tyrant. These are persons who are considered to be full of cruelty, arrogant, and irrational too. He is a person who lacks esteem for other people’s rights. A single president, governing a nation has always had a mentality of forcing new rules on his subjects. They are believed to be taking advantage of nearly all of the citizens’ freedom (Bychowski, 15).
Currently, dictatorship has been said to refer to a system of total ruling in which most of the citizen’s rights are not catered for in the law governing them. Dictatorship generally entails all the negative impacts imparted to the citizens as a result of a poor system of ruling by the president. Most of the information entailed in the booklet of law governing the citizens is usually in favor of the president. In a dictatorship, nearly the entire constitution, some other political as well as social factors within the state are denied access by the citizens.
Former leaders’ perception
Up to date, dictatorship has been practiced by the majority of the leaders all over the world. Despite several pleas from the citizens to quit the behavior, most of them still practice this weird behavior today. From the system of governments these leaders used in governing their people before they were referred to as tyrants, we can be able to emerge with the various techniques of explaining dictatorship further (Killingsworth, 19).
According to information from one of the presidents, dictatorship is shown when the leader is sworn into power through corruption. The leader may also be in power without the usual process which is through election by the majority. Independent individuals governing a nation tend to rely completely on their own decision without consulting any other person (Carter, 22). To my surprise is that decisions that are made individually affect the entire citizens within the country.
This shows dictatorship. A dictatorship can also be seen through the leaders who associate with groups from neighboring countries that are widely known to engage in criminal activities. They mostly associate with these criminal persons knowing that the harm that will be caused by these dangerous persons will not affect them (Labrosse, 12).
Conclusion
Dictatorships revealed by the presidents are one of the greatest autocratic practices that have severe impacts on the citizens and thus one will never want to experience. Some leaders who are dictators go further to an extent of ordering for the enticing of the handicapped and then disposing them to overflow rivers. These are the worst behaviors and practices that all individuals all over the world try to avoid them. Presidents who are sworn in should try their best to come up with policies that favor all individuals living in the nation. The presidents should avoid harshness and always come up with sound advice that benefits all the people.
Work Cited
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Carter, Nick. Mussolini’s Italy: Life under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945: The Australian Journal of Politics and History. 53.3 (2008): 20-26. Print.
Cooper, William. The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America. Journal of Church and State. 41.3 (2005): 12-16. Print.
Horn, Jeff. Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. Canadian Journal of History. 6.3 (2005) 14-19. Print.
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Annotated bibliography
Arnold, James. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq (Dictatorships) Minneapolis MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2008. Print.
Arnold’s book commences by explaining who a criminal is. He offers the description of an offensive person both physical appearances as well as the various dressing styles. The author has taken a comical approach in explaining the entire theme of dictatorship with information flowing smoothly from one plot to another. Arnold’s book is created optimistically and encouragingly in which several steps have been given systematically. These steps if followed, the dictatorship problem affecting many countries maybe a little bit solved.
Arnold in his book aims at restoring hope for those individuals who have lost optimism. Optimism has been regarded in this book as the core of performing anything an individual may need. The conclusion part of this book is referred to all those individuals who would have given up in life. The encouraging words from this book can help an individual with many troubles to feel as if he doesn’t have any.
Caldwell, Peter. Dictatorship, state planning, and social theory in the German Democratic Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.
Caldwell’s book offers advice on different approaches to counteracting the evils that arise from dictatorship. The book analyzes fully both the possible benefits as well as the detriments of dictatorship. Captivating a hilarious approach, each chapter has been put in such a stylish view with the plot flowing expectedly. This has entailed topics from a wide range of fields in life. For instance, the economic aspect, theoretically, modernly, and the philosophical part of the dictatorship. The explanations have been written in such a way that the book is enjoyable and appealing too to the user
Caldwell offers directions to enable other people to notice the negative impacts of dictatorship on the economy of a nation. Caldwell offers advice to the entire citizens to enable them to come up with techniques to counteract presidential dictatorship. This is to help them escape the harsh impacts resulting from dictatorship.
Childress, Diana. Omar Al-Bashir’s Sudan (Dictatorships) Minneapolis MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2010. Print.
Childress’s book offers a sincere advice on the impacts of dictatorships that often result in wars; both negative and position impacts. Childress’ book is open and straightforward on the hazardous impacts of dictatorships and goes further to explain the various steps or rather solutions that need to be taken to escape the pandemic.
In chapter three, Childress has given us actions proving that a leader is exercising dictatorship over his subjects. She however warns people of inappropriate measures of counteracting an autocratic system of governance. Childress creates her book stylishly and simply where she includes the various photos of displaced children as verifications of the negative impacts of dictatorship. Chapter seven of this book tackles issues that may help kids in school to come up with discussions among themselves and get supplementary points to those that Childress has addressed. The ways of making friends will help expand their knowledge and create lively discussions too.
Green, James. We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States. Duke: Duke UP, 2010. Print.
Green in this book has shown indisputable interest in encouraging individuals to have hope and luck, then develop the courage to fight for their stolen rights. Through a comical approach in this book, green has developed what people acknowledge most. He encourages individuals to make a declaration followed by justification points to enable them to go through the process successfully. Green’s book is quite reliable as the book offers significant, precise, and correct guidelines to enable an individual to bring his or her freedom back successfully
Green’s provides some reasonable tips and guidelines to assist in defending education as well as artistic activities. This book is favorable for students as from chapters four and five; students can be able to develop some understanding of the importance of education and art. Students also get to develop some knowledge of the causes, impacts, and how to avoid torture. Students will find this book full of inspiration and enjoyable too.
Zahler, Kathy. The Assads’ Syria (Dictatorships). Minneapolis MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2009. Print.
Zahler’s book provides information about the various ways through which the country of Syria was ruled under a dictatorship. Zahler’s book takes a hilarious approach where various chapters have been explained sympathetically though very exciting and very attractive. The themes addressed in this book include dictatorship, religion, and education.
In Kathy’s book, we are made to recognize the various ways through which our rights and freedom can be snatched away by our leaders. Kathy tries to provide a reasonable recommendation to young individuals who have dreams to grow up upright to attain their goals. Kathy’s book may be addressed to both citizens as well as individuals aspiring to be leaders. In chapter three of this book, the act of killing innocent Jews and Christians creates suspense to the aspiring leader to think whether the action is worthwhile and establish ways of doing away with it.