What was the goal of the "seventeen-article constitution"?
A. To decentralize the Japanese government.
B. To create a military system that could conquer the Tang Dynasty of China.
C. To establish an early form of feudalism.
D. To raise the status of the elite and establish a hereditary system of office holding.
E. To centralize the government and limit the powers of the hereditary nobility.
Answer: E
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