Rule by decree

Rule by decree is a style of governance in which a single person or small group makes law directly, without the usual approval of a legislature. It is commonly associated with dictatorships and with states of emergency, in which constitutional emergency provisions or an enabling act transfer lawmaking power to the executive, bypassing the ordinary process of making laws.

This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.