But in spite of all Temmu's precautions to accomplish the centralization of power, success was menaced by a factor which could scarcely have been controlled.
A great Japanese scholar** has contended that the centralization which prevailed in later ages was wholly an imitation of Chinese bureaucracy, and that organized feudalism was the original form of government in Japan.
It may indeed be broadly stated that the potency of the Daiho code varied in the direct ratio of the centralization of administrative authority.
By centralization the provinces are weakened, it is true,--but weak to assist as well as to oppose a government, weak to withstand a mob.
Centralization is an excellent quackery for a despot who desires power to last only his own life, and who has but a life-interest in the State; but to true liberty and permanent order centralization is a deadly poison.
Centralization increases the importance of the whole body, and, like the pendulum of a clock, regulates the movements of the whole State.
To obviate this evil, the method of centralization has been adopted with satisfactory results, as in the case of the United States of America, and Germany.
Now I submit that in the time of the cholera we had a pretty good opportunity of judging between this so called centralization and what I may, I think, call "vestrylisation.
Sidenote: An excellent result of the absence of centralization in the United States.
Attention was called to the House amendment making centralizationof distributors in the office of the Superintendent of Documents obligatory to all departments.
Mr. Thompson and Mr. Solberg opposed obligatory centralization and suggested that the association register with the Senate Committee on Printing its disapproval on the grounds both of economy and of promptness of service.
Our effort, and the purpose of our discussions, is therefore to promote a standardization of the form and a co-operative centralization of the work itself, in which our libraries as a whole may secure a participating benefit.
The centralization of catalogs and reference books alone would in time make it desirable for the departments more and more to consult the general library.
One of the things considered indispensable, and therefore adopted as a resolution by the Conference of 1863, was the centralization of the work in each country separately by itself.
It is, as I shall hereafter point out, intimately connected with that love of centralization which appears in the machinery of their government, and in the spirit of their literature.
These assume two distinct forms: one founded on the character of our towns and the importance of preserving their influence; the other founded on the alleged necessity of counteracting the centralization of power in the cities.
This brings me, in the next place, to the objection founded on centralizationof power in the cities.
Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsylvania have adopted systems which are a mean between the plan of centralization and the plan of localization.
The danger of centralization is bureaucracy; but in institute work, if the management fails to provide for local needs, and to furnish acceptable speakers, vigorous protests soon correct the aberration.
Wherever centralization is not adopted, the consolidation of two or three schools--a modified form of centralization--may prove helpful.
The centralization of district schools and the transportation of pupils will probably prove to be more nearly a solution of all these difficulties than will any other one scheme.
There are dangers more immediate and more fatal than Cæsars or centralization threatening our republic.
If the states cannot conduct their internal affairs in a civil fashion and in the spirit of the constitution, there is apparently no medium between centralization and disruption.
If ever the Pope is acknowledged throughout Christendom as an infallible authority, it is inevitable that ecclesiastical centralization should take much larger dimensions than before.
Some new means of supply must be discovered, and the extremest extension of ecclesiastical centralization and papal absolutism has always been recognised at Rome as the most productive source of revenue.
In State ownership they saw an outcome of the necessary centralization of capital and its growth into huge monopolies.
Anything which interferes with the liberty of the individual is abhorred, and nothing awakens a more lively hatred than centralization and State power.
But there has never been a complete separation, and therefore, to the great detriment of the church's authority and of believers, centralization has never been sufficient.
Without this right the League would be merely a concealed centralization still.
The times seem to favor a centralization of governmental functions such as could not have suggested itself as a possibility to the framers of the Constitution.
The centralization that fortifies and secures liberty is National centralization, which we have traced through six steps since 1776, and which has, within the last ten years, received a new impetus by the XIII.
It therefore became necessary to take another step in the centralization of power, and let it be remembered that every such successive step we have traced was taken in the interests of liberty, and for the benefit of the whole people.
Opposition and struggles have already come, and will continue to arise, but legislators may beat their brains as they will, the fact of new National centralization still remains.
Out of this agitation grew the Constitution of the United States, which was the third great step in the centralization of power.
The safety of the citizen lies in a strong National constitution: it lies in a National centralization of power that shall override the States in their attempt to destroy individual rights.
In reality, political opinion, or perhaps it would be more correct to say political feeling, divides on this great question of the centralization or the division of power.
The tendency tocentralization has been in the lead, undoubtedly, during the last forty years.
In 1750 he effected a centralization of all the provincial church consistories, except that of Catholic Silesia, under the Berlin Consistory.
In France, on the contrary, centralization of authority and subordination to a central government had been the tendency for an even longer period.
It also established control after the French plan, with a high degree of centralization and uniformity.
One of the results of this centralization was the gradual evolution of the modern German Gymnasien, with uniform standards and improved instruction, out of the old and weakened Latin schools of various types within the kingdom.
He further recognized in such a coördinating centralization the possibilities of much good in the stimulation of production and stabilization of home prices.
Hoover very early saw the advisability of an American centralization of the purchases for foreign export as an offset to this danger.
But if the attempt at Imperial centralization had failed, the force of circumstances tended partly for this very reason to favour State-territorial centralization.
The speciality about the history of Germany is, that it has not known till our own day centralization on a national or racial scale like England or France.
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