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Definition of One-man rule
1. Noun. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.).
Generic synonyms: Autarchy, Autocracy
Specialized synonyms: Police State
Derivative terms: Absolutist, Absolutistic, Dictator, Stalinist
Lexicographical Neighbors of One-man Rule
Literary usage of One-man rule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. As it is in the Philippines by Charles Ballentine (1902)
"Civil Government a One-Man Rule.—Native Commissioners. THE Bible and all history
tells us that God made the world, and incidentally, the Philippine Islands ..."
2. Governance and Food Security in an Age of Globalization by Robert L. Paarlberg (2002)
"It is an irony that Africa's one-man rule regimes are protected from international
... External interventions that sustain one-man rule in Africa also come ..."
3. Spinoza's Political and Ethical Philosophy by Robert Alexander Duff (1903)
"It is the inherent precariousness of one-man-rule which makes the monarch a tyrant.
" The more absolutely the right and authority of the State has been ..."
4. The Truth about Home Rule: Papers on the Irish Question by George Smyth Baden-Powell, George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1888)
"... abandon its Constitution or again to intrust its destinies to one who would,
without compunction, substitute for representative government one-man rule. ..."
5. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"This one-man rule implies great uncertainty for the prospects of market reforms
in each country. With the change of one man at the top, a country's economic ..."
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