It used to be said that so huge a people as this could not be kept together as a single national aggregate,or, if kept together at all, could only be so by means of a powerful centralized government, like that of ancient Rome under the emperors.

As it was, its strong centralized government did not save it from political disintegration.

One of its weakest political features was precisely this,that its "strong centralized government" was a kind of close corporation, governing a score of provinces in its own interest rather than in the interest of the provincials.

Second, they forced upon England the national idea, that is, a strong, centralized government to replace the loose authority of a Saxon chief over his tribesmen.

Sovereign powers are powers so important that the community, in its corporate capacity, has, as society has centralized, usually found it necessary to monopolize them more or less absolutely, since their possession by private persons causes revolt.

Furthermore, among all highly centralized nations, the regulation of the currency is one of the most jealously guarded of the prerogatives of sovereignty, because all values hinge upon the relation which the volume of the currency bears to the volume of trade.

As soon as it became centralized under a single monarch, it was subjected to fresh calamities.

" Peter died in the following year, after a reign of more than forty years, bequeathing a centralized empire to his successors, a large and disciplined army, a respectable navy, and many improvements in agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and the arts,yea, schools and universities for the education of the higher classes.

He rendered a service to centralized authority, to the power of Congress.

He interfered, and aided by treason, he succeeded to crush freedom and self-government in Hungary, and to establish a centralized absolutism there, where, through all the ages of the past, the rule of despotism never had been established, and the United States let him silently accomplish this violation of the common law of nations.

Independent Hungary can pay it, because it has no debts, will want no large standing armies, and will have a cheap administration, because not centralized, but municipal, the people governing itself in and through municipalities, the cheapest of all governments.

Especially are we jealous of highly centralized authority.

It must expect at first to be much less certain and efficient in its action than is a highly centralized government.

Centralized control.

If fancy bread were made, only the big bakers would have time to make it, little ones would be without clients, and that this highly centralized, paternal government cannot allow.

The authority in all lines is highly centralized."

He instituted a hierarchically centralized administration which made the abortive constitution of Mavrokordatos seem sober by comparison; he trampled on the liberty of the rising press, which was the most hopeful educational influence in the country; and he created superfluous ministerial portfolios for his untalented brothers.

This was made the more possible from the fact that, on account of the political ignorance of the masses, and of the varied influence exercised on the electorate by the highly centralized administration, no Rumanian Government ever fails to obtain a majority at an election.

The centralized bureaucracy which he succeeded in initiating was, of course, wretchedly imperfect both in constitution and equipment.

It is not an army marching at the command of a strongly centralized power to conquer a rich neighbor, and force a defeated enemy to pay it service or tribute.

Such a degree of individual influenceperhaps I should exaggerate if I called it individual independencewas, however, little suited to the idea of a universal centralized empire, which was the forming principle of the government of Charlemagne.

Moreover, the personal organizations in the separate enterprises had been brought to a high state of efficiency by the stimulus of competition, and there is reason to fear that, after some years of centralized bureaucratic organization, much of this efficiency may be lost.

Roman civilization under the Caesars was a centralized absolutism with a large measure of peripheral deviation and autonomy.

In every instance of which history provides a legible record, centralized, universalized institutions and practices have fragmented into diversity and stubborn localism.

The nucleus which lies at the heart of an empire or a civilization has a political life cycle that runs from the unstructured or little structured aggregation of confederation or self-determining local groups to a highly centralized political absolutism holding and exercising its authority by the use of the military.