• 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...
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  • A decree nisi or rule nisi (from Latin nisi 'unless') is a court order that will come into force at a future date unless a particular condition is met...
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    A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state, judge, royal figure, or other relevant authorities, according to certain procedures...
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    The Reichstag Fire Decree (German: Reichstagsbrandverordnung) is the common name of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and...
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    rule by decree, or may wield power by exercising binding (but informal) control over a nominally civilian government. These two forms of junta rule are...
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    Indira Gandhi (category Deaths by firearm in India)
    instituted a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977, during which she ruled by decree and basic civil liberties were suspended. More than 100,000 political...
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    characterised by some of the following: suspension of elections and civil liberties; proclamation of a state of emergency; rule by decree; repression of...
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    the world at that time. With unrestricted political power and able to rule by decree, Mswati III (together with his mother, Ntfombi Tfwala, now Queen Mother...
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    First presidency of Nicolás Maduro (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from March 2017)
    Assembly granted Maduro the power to rule by decree until 19 November 2014. On 10 March 2015, Maduro asked to rule by decree for a second time following the...
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    Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    dominated by Obiang's Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE). The constitution grants Obiang sweeping powers, including the power to rule by decree. Although...
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    the president. After the crisis, Yeltsin governed the country in a rule by decree until 1994, as the Supreme Soviet of Russia was absent. Secessionist...
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    James became king, making Mary heir presumptive. James's attempts at rule by decree and the birth of his son from a second marriage, James Francis Edward...
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    performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament and instituting a presidential rule by decree system. The crisis ended with Yeltsin using military force to attack...
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    March 1977. The order bestowed upon the prime minister the authority to rule by decree, allowing elections to be cancelled and civil liberties to be suspended...
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    Kais Saied (category Leaders who took power by coup)
    judiciary and arrest of his main political opposition figures. He ruled by decree until he was successful in passing a new constitution which granted...
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  • derivative suits, or bankruptcy action. Many of these rules create the space for consent decree by establishing the role of judges within the settlement...
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  • authority, and allowed a royally-appointed Prime Minister and Cabinet to rule by decree through Orders in Council. In 1966 Oswald Mosley advocated a government...
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    National Assembly to rule by decree multiple times throughout his tenure, passing hundreds of laws. Chávez ruled Venezuela by decree in 2000, 2001, 2004...
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    Reichstag and began to use the Presidential powers to rule by decree. This was received positively by many conservatives who disliked democratic government...
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    was succeeded by his Vice President Nicolás Maduro, who gained a slim majority in the 14 April 2013 special election and has ruled by decree for the majority...
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    president in 1976), it is arguably not accurate to equate rule by decree with military rule, although these may at times coincide.[citation needed] Among...
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    Viktor Orbán (category Men's association football players not categorized by position)
    vote to rule by decree". Politico. Retrieved 30 March 2020. Amaro, Silvia (31 March 2020). "Coronavirus in Hungary – Viktor Orban rules by decree indefinitely"...
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  • Ordinance of Alsnö or Statute of Alsnö (Swedish: Alsnö stadga) was an act by king Magnus Ladulås of Sweden, issued at Alsnö hus in 1279, giving exemption...
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  • to rule without its consent. After the Nazi Party's rise to power in the early 1930s, the law allowed Chancellor Adolf Hitler, with decrees issued by Hindenburg...
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    Nazis, allowing the Chancellor to remain in power and continue his rule by decree. In exchange, Papen lifted the ban on the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) militia...
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    eligible to be renewed. Under the Weimar Constitution, the President could rule by decree in times of emergency using Article 48. During the election campaign...
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    oversaw response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the pandemic, Masisi ruled by decree from March 2020 to September 2021, despite protests from the public...
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    which was interrupted by the Nazis in the July election. After the election, von Papen urged Hindenburg to continue to rule by decree, while at the same...
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    used his power to act on all matters that did not require a plenum to rule by decree. Over time, he also usurped many powers that constitutionally belonged...
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    President of Austria (category Presidents by country)
    Cabinet, dissolve the National Council and the State Legislatures, rule by decree and oversee the Armed Forces but these powers have never or rarely been...
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