Sentences with phrase «benevolent autocrats»

The Canadian Justice Review Board is a coalition of citizens who are concerned that the rules and laws by which they are governed are at risk when courts claim powers for themselves to operate as benevolent autocrats and to rule as they please.

One need not necessarily be troubled by the delay in the advent of democracy per se; though it is terribly un-Wilsonian to do so, one can, and in fact ought to, remain open to the possibility of the benevolent autocrat.