A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by a dictator. It has two possible meanings: Roman dictator was a political office of the Roman Republic. Roman dictators were allocated absolute power during times of emergency. Their power was originally neither arbitrary nor unaccountable, being subject to law and requiring retrospective justification. There were no such dictatorships after the beginning of the 2nd century BCE, and later dictators such as Sul… (More on Dictature)