WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -dictatorship, form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations.

Detailed explanation-2: -One can apply accusations of tyranny to a variety of types of government: to government by one individual (in an autocracy) to government by a minority (in an oligarchy, tyranny of the minority) to government by a majority (in a democracy, tyranny of the majority)

Detailed explanation-3: -In a tyranny, the ruling power is in the hands of one person who is not a lawful king. A tyranny is different from a monarchy in two ways. First tyrant cannot claim that he has a legal right to rule. Second, a tyrant’s son does not usually inherit his father’s power.

Detailed explanation-4: -A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a small clique. The word originated as the title of a Roman dictator elected by the Roman Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency.

Detailed explanation-5: -Autocracy. An autocracy is a form of government in which one ruler has absolute control and decision-making power in all matters of state and over all the country’s people.