Krasnaya Zvezda Quotes
Experience shows a particular candidate's election platform has on several occasions changed most radically after he has become President.
The Moscow daily newspaper was explaining American presidential elections to its readers:
Krasnaya Zvezda, (Moscow Daily Newspaper), October 1988
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This president served his terms as allowed by the Constitution but then moved to change the constitution so that he could be the dictator as perpetual president. The purpose of constitutions is to limit and control the day to day political process and processes of reform. This stands the purpose of a constitution on its head. Modern totalitarian states almost all have constitutions. However where they differ from democracies is that the dictatorships ignore their constitutions, constantly suspend them in “emergencies” or change them at will to serve the interests of the ruling authorities. See {622125} for a Supreme Court Justice’s view of this kind of situation.
The absurdity was that Adolf Hitler had more unilateral power and authority than and king did in the 20th century.
Krasnaya Zvezda (Russian: Кра́сная звезда́, literally "Red Star") is the official newspaper of the Soviet and later Russian Ministry of Defence. Today its official designation is "Central Organ of the Russian Ministry of Defence."