Two principles or goals are in question when territorial division of a state, that is,
power organizing is under consideration. These two principles may collide, although it is
not inevitable. The first goal-principle is efficiency. Efficiency had priority with the authoritarian regimes, the assumptions of which were (frequently wrong) that firmly
centralized control over the smaller units contributes to organizing and strengthening the
state. Certainly, this can only contribute to concentrating the power and expanding its
control over the local human and material resources. How much efficiency was connected
in the past with centralism or unitarianism, can also be illustrated by the fact that Dicey,
an author responsible for development of the rule of law idea, considered in his well
known study on the law of constitution13 that the conflict between a unitary state and a
federation (of similar human and material potentials) will always result in a victory of the
state featured by the unitary system. The second goal-principle is guided by the, worded
in the modern terminology, "life quality", that is, by meeting the local population needs
and different forms of local and regional (cantonal) self-government are closer to this
principle, the synonym of which is almost autonomy