dictators

70:12.3The king was the ex­ecu­tor of the mores, the orig­i­nal or un­writ­ten law. Later he en­forced the leg­isla­tive en­act­ments, the crys­tal­liza­tion of pub­lic opin­ion. A pop­u­lar as­sem­bly as an ex­pres­sion of pub­lic opin­ion, though slow in ap­pear­ing, marked a great so­cial ad­vance.

70:12.4The early kings were greatly re­stricted by the mores—by tra­di­tion or pub­lic opin­ion. In re­cent times some Uran­tia na­tions have cod­i­fied these mores into doc­u­men­tary bases for gov­ern­ment.

70:12.5Uran­tia mor­tals are en­ti­tled to lib­erty; they should cre­ate their sys­tems of gov­ern­ment; they should adopt their con­sti­tu­tions or other char­ters of civil au­thor­ity and ad­min­is­tra­tive pro­ce­dure. And hav­ing done this, they should se­lect their most com­pe­tent and wor­thy fel­lows as chief ex­ec­u­tives. For rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the leg­isla­tive branch they should elect only those who are qual­i­fied in­tel­lec­tu­ally and morally to ful­fill such sa­cred re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. As judges of their high and su­preme tri­bu­nals only those who are en­dowed with nat­u­ral abil­ity and who have been made wise by re­plete ex­pe­ri­ence should be cho­sen.

70:12.6If men would main­tain their free­dom, they must, af­ter hav­ing cho­sen their char­ter of lib­erty, pro­vide for its wise, in­tel­li­gent, and fear­less in­ter­pre­ta­tion to the end that there may be pre­vented:

70:12.71. Usurpa­tion of un­war­ranted power by ei­ther the ex­ec­u­tive or leg­isla­tive branches.

70:12.82. Machi­na­tions of ig­no­rant and su­per­sti­tious ag­i­ta­tors.

70:12.93. Re­tar­da­tion of sci­en­tific prog­ress.

70:12.104. Stale­mate of the dom­i­nance of medi­ocrity.

70:12.115. Dom­i­na­tion by vi­cious mi­nori­ties.