Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "The End of Polish Democracy - Pilsudski and the Sanacja Regime | BETWEEN 2 WARS | 1935 Part 2 of 4" video.

@the_astrokhan Before Sulla the Roman institution of dictatorship was very different from the modern model. The dictator could only be appointed with a senatorial decree, his powers were limited to the specific matter he was commissioned to deal with, and his term ran only for the duration of the crisis he was appointed to deal with or for six months, whichever was shorter. Sulla and Caesar changed the dictatorship into something entirely different, which is where the modern usage came from, but their actions in doing so were much, much more controversial and, in many eyes, disreputable than anything earlier dictators like Cincinnatus had done.
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