Machiavelli
[24] The Discourses, Bk. 1, Ch. XXXIV.
[25] In contrast to Mill, Machiavelli’s use of the term “dictator” is loose and misleading. The so-called dictator was really a temporary emergency executive who by no means enjoyed absolute power.
[26] The Discourses, Bk. 1, Ch. XXXIV.
[27] Id., at Ch. XXXV.
Contemporary Theorists
[28] The Failure of Constitutional Emergency Powers Under the German Republic, op. cit., p. 148.
[29] See his “The Problem of Constitutional Dictatorship,” p. 324ff. in Carl J. Friedrich and Edward S. Mason (editors) Public Policy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940).
[30] Id., at p. 328.
[31] Id., at 353.