Fill in the Blanks 244-testOnline version 244-test by Farhad Key 1 intention exceptional applied possible individual used disagreement Dictatorship is not a modern concept . Two thousand years ago , during the period of the Roman Republic , powers were sometimes given by the Senate to dictators such as Sulla and Julius Caesar . The was that the dictatorship would be temporary and that it would make it to take swift and effective action to deal with an emergency . There is some as to how the term should be applied today . Should it be in its original form to describe the temporary exercise of emergency powers ? Or can it now be in a much broader sense ? as common usage suggests ?