If not, on what do you base this rather odd fear of dictatorship.......especially from all the good men who have been President in your lifetime?
I don't have any problems that the founders didn't have also. The form of government they created was always to be a servant of the people; and they put safeguards into the Constitution to insure that.
My fear is based on the baseness of the human condition.
We're all human, Presidents, Congressmen, Senators, and judges included, and we can all fall into the trap that the condition entails.
No argument with you in principle. Just lacking your fear.
The Constitution is strong enough to have survived William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
I'd say that's a pretty solid test of its resilience against personal corruption and guile.