English Translation

In some countries, depending on the circumstances, this problem appears as a federalisation, elsewhere as an autonomousisation, yet elsewhere only as a single local decentralisation and appropriate division of responsibility between the central and local executive and legislative bodies. In some countries this forces the question of the different composition of the population, elsewhere the too great expansion of the territory, yet elsewhere the cultural and economic maturity or immaturity of this or that entity. On the European continent, the historical traditions and remains of the state administration from the past, according to the origin of the states or their enlargement and various provinces and territories, are very often the reason for the decentralization. Recognizing and correctly comprehending when and how one or the other of the Bbrm of larger and smaller centralization and decentralization must be enforced, to determine, if of them in this or that state best corresponds to the relevant stage of development of the people, the territory, the host, the cuitur, etc., is in general the characteristic of the maturity of each denocracy. In this sense, British democracy has had a brilliant reputation, rightly or wrongfully. This is also a major problem for our state, and it falls under the current difficulties of any democracy precisely because this problem is finally reduced to the question of the judicial synthesis of freedom and autonomy in democracy; whether the decentralization defended in the name of the fundamental principle of democracy does not become an anarchy, an ato-