Through these crises, between the declaration of martial law in 1957 and the return to die authoritarian 1945 Constitution in 1959, the army grew steadily more powerful at the center as well as in the regions. Sukarno also grew more powerful with each crisis, preaching revolutionary unity as against die divisiveness of parliamentary democracy. When the Constituent Assembly declined ins proposal to reinstate the emergency 1945 Constitution he sum¬marily dismissed that Assembly and proclaimed that constitution on his own authority, making the cabinet responsible only to himself. His attacks on the parliamentary system were designed to appeal to the armed forces as well as the communists. “The instruments of state power must be completely weaned from liberalism, now that they are in the shade of the flag of the 1945 Constitution. They must now become instruments of the Revolution again” (Sukarno 1959, cited Feith and Casdes 1970, 107). ABRI’s centrality in the system of “Guided Democracy” Sukarno inaugurated was demonstrated when the military filled one third of cabinet positions, including Nasution as Defense Minister, and many governorships.