But the effective centralizing principle was not represented by the Emperor, for he stood for what was after all largely a sham centralism, because it was a centralism on a scale for which the Germanic world was not ripe.
Modern "liberalism" has abandoned American constitutional government and replaced it with democratic centralism, which, in fundamental theory, is identical with the democratic centralism of the Soviet Union, and of every other major nation existing today.
The proposition was supported by Mr. James Wilson—both of these gentlemen being delegates from Pennsylvania, and both among the most earnest advocates of centralism in the Convention.
There is one other provision of the Constitution, which is generally adduced by the friends of centralism as antagonistic to State sovereignty.
When you enlarge the land area and population controlled by democratic centralism you must necessarily diminish freedom for the people, because the problems of centralized government increase with the size of population and area which it controls.
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Part of this involves a renewed vigour - for the basic tendency was always there - in what might be called linguisticcentralism.
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Yet, legalcentralismreflects the ambition of the modern nation state for total legal control and by definition rejects polycentric law.
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This transformation alone cannot explain the change towardscentralismand marketisation, which must be interpreted in a broader historical institutional context.
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This is not to say thatcentralismis the only perspective that might be brought to bear on these questions.
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The emphasis on collectivism,centralism, and large experimental devices that could not be managed by individual university laboratories and institutes justified the dimensions of the proposed enterprise.
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But the intent was to offer a clear reference that this is not democratic socialism, democraticcentralism, or other non-democratic regime forms that expropriate the democratic label.
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The popular organizational principles emphasizedcentralism, planning, collectivism, and a quantum leap towards largesse in all quantitative measures - personnel, instruments, networks - over the previous generation of research laboratories.
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Iturbide'scentralismran up against the provincial sentiment, which had developed during the war and had been fostered in the constitutional system.
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Not only did conservatives supportcentralismwhile liberals favoured federalism - the former were also advocates of maintaining the system of colonial corporate privileges that liberals sought to destroy.
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Democraticcentralism, a structure of hierarchy that lends itself well to the needs of guerrilla organisations, also served to camouflage the activities of this shadow party.
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There is no way that we can go along with this attempt atcentralism.
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At present, the outcome is morecentralismand less parliamentary democracy.
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We have too muchcentralismand too much conformity.
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However, it was obviously the enemy of corporatecentralismspeaking.
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We would not have considered the welfare state withoutcentralism.
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