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Abstract:  GOOD GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY IN THE PAPAL STATE IN THE 1700S The complexity of the sources of law in the Papal State and the organized system of territorial representations reflection a wide variety of resources and local economic interests made the process of state centralization slow and arduous. The Good Government, the community’s controlling body, tried to accomplish this during the XVI and XVIII centuries. It brought about a compromise which, working around the vitality of the statutes and the resistance of the territorial elite, united the centre and the peripheral areas, made them indispensable to each other, and reduced feudal privileges, allowing them to forge a relationship that effectively made them allies during the hard French years.