ABSTRACT
The expansion of power is an equally significant feature of constitutional government in crisis. The power of the state in crisis must not only be concentrated and expanded, it must also be freed from the normal system of constitutional and legal limitations. There are three general forms of modern crisis government that may be deduced from the many emergency regimes, namely: the executive dictatorship, the legislative dictatorship, and the war government. The most obvious danger of constitutional dictatorship, or of any of its institutions, is the unpleasant possibility that such dictatorship will abandon its qualifying adjective and become permanent and unconstitutional. The facts of history demonstrate conclusively that constitutional dictatorship has served repeatedly as an indispensable factor in the maintenance of constitutional democracy. The principal ends of the general reform of the American government are an increase in responsibility and an increase in efficiency; the principal ends of the particular reform of the government's instruments of constitutional dictatorship are identical.
