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Rule by decree is a style of governance allowing quick, unchallenged promulgation of law by a single person or group of people, usually without legislative approval. While intended to allow rapid responses to a crisis, rule by decree is easily abused and is often a key feature of dictatorships .
The invocation of Article 48 by successive governments helped seal the fate of the Weimar Republic. While Brüning's first invocation of an emergency decree may have been well-intentioned, the power to rule by decree was increasingly used not in response to a specific emergency but as a substitute for parliamentary leadership.
In US legal usage, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, a decree was an order of a court of equity determining the rights of the parties to a suit, according to equity and good conscience. Since the 1938 procedural merger of law and equity in the federal courts under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the term judgment (the parallel ...
Rule by a government under the sovereignty of rational laws and civic right as opposed to one under theocratic systems of government. In a nomocracy, ultimate and final authority (sovereignty) exists in the law. Cyberocracy: Rule by a computer, which decides based on computer code and efficient use of information. This is closely linked to ...
Executive Order 12954, issued by President Bill Clinton in 1995, attempted to prevent the federal government from contracting with organizations that had strike-breakers on the payroll: a federal appeals court ruled that the order conflicted with the National Labor Relations Act and overturned the order. [25] [26]
The executive order was challenged in court by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Asian Law Caucus in the case New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Trump. [13] On February 10, Judge Joseph N. Laplante of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire became the third federal judge to issue an injunction blocking the order. [14]
8), also known as the Statute of Proclamations, [1] was a law enacted by the English Reformation Parliament of Henry VIII. It permitted the King to rule by decree , ordering that "traditional" proclamations (that is, any unable to impose the death penalty or forfeiture of goods) [ clarification needed ] should be obeyed as "though they were ...
Rule may be hereditary in practice without being considered a monarchy: there have been some family dictatorships [note 3] (and also political families) in many democracies. [ note 4 ] The principal advantage of hereditary monarchy is the immediate continuity of leadership (as evidenced in the classic phrase " The King is dead.