ABSTRACT
The household system was independent of the government, and various spheres in which its independence was expressed and assured will now be discussed. It must not be supposed that the independence of the household system in these various directions, executive, finance, justice, personnel, meant that it was apart from the general administration. Its own departments were independent of the administrative departments. This independence is important because it assured the king freedom from outside control ; but it is of far greater importance because by virtue of its independence it was able to exercise decisive influence upon the administrative departments.
