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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 ?