The Dutch Were Able to Maintain Their Tradition of Local

The Dutch were able to maintain their tradition of local sovereignty when most successful states of the seventeenth century were developing strong central governments because

A) The nobility was extremely wealthy and proud and did not want a king-or any central government- over them
B) They were able to exclude religious dissenters from their small state so that there was no organized . minority that had to be controlled by centralized force
C) The great prosperity of the Dutch in the seventeenth century moderated any pressure to impose a strong authority from above
D) The African slave trade was an important source of Dutch prosperity and there was fear that a strong central government might abolish this lucrative business