Public ownership of the means of production was a key feature that distinguished Soviet law from the law of most other dictatorial police states.
Meanwhile, the lack of checks and balances in Britain gives even a coalition prime minister near-dictatorial powers to get laws passed quickly—something Presidents Obama and Sarkozy must envy.Yet the main prompt has been necessity.
In May 1980, students, joined by other civilians – many of them children – took to the streets in Gwangju, South Korea, to protest against the extending of martial law by dictatorial army general Chun Doo-hwan.
Maritime law invests dictatorial powers, without limit, to the captain of each and every ship at sea.
With preceding legal institutions abolished, Gaddafi envisioned the Jamahiriya as following the Qur'an for legal guidance, adopting sharia law; he proclaimed "man-made" laws unnatural and dictatorial, only permitting Allah's law.
It insists on obeying the laws of even the dictatorial countries where its missionaries roam.
These laws, promulgated during the dictatorial rule of General Zia, stripped minorities of their basic rights.
But it was Mr. Morsi's dictatorial edict placing himself above the law last month that ignited this crisis.
Standing next to a dictatorial leader accused by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement of attacking the foundations of American democracy, Trump often appeared confused and incoherent — and those were his best moments at the podium.
But I am enough of a techno-pessimist to believe that baking surveillance, control and censorship into the very fabric of our networks, devices and laws is the absolute road to dictatorial hell.
