The so-called "seventeen-article constitution" involved
a. a decentralization of Japanese government by Shotoku Taishi.
b. an effort to enable the Japanese to conquer the Tang Dynasty of China.
c. the formal establishment of feudalism.
d. a last-ditch effort to keep peasants under Buddhist control.
e. a centralized government under a supreme ruler and a merit system.
e
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