During the 15th and 16th centuries Spain was the most powerful country because of the discovery of America and gold and silver, the union of Castile and Aragon under Ferdinand and Isabella, religious unification, the conquering of Granada , and an age of new learning. The was called Spain's "Golden Age". One of the main reasons for Spain’s fall is because the Spanish empire was too large to control.
Even when elected, state and local judges should base their decisions solely on "points of law", since the job of a judge or jury is to be impartial, as to ensure that their personal bias doesn't affect the case.
Empowering the police to monitor citizens at all times
Explanation:
The first police shortly created after the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, would be an instrument to be used in a totalitarian command
The secret police of Stalin NKVD was a force that drew later under Stalin the totalitarian policy most scandalous for carrying out Stalin's Purges.
The secret police was mostly used for securing that Stalin would stay in power indefinitely,
The alleged national security and their aims were far beyond and contributed for cruel work camps, famines and social engineering.
They wanted to create conditions for a new socialist system to born.
Stalin also used the NKVD for eliminating close people to him when he became suspicious.
Periodically he will use systematically "cleaning lists" for setting a quota of people to be killed.
Hitler's rise to power, and the Blitzkrieg or "Lightning War" tactic which focused on armored divisions steamrolling and shock troopers coming in after to mop up the remainder.