But they would at least level the uneven terrain that underlies debates about scattershot regional privileges.
In 2004, he signed a law allowing the president to appoint regional governors, a privilege he mostly retains despite reforms prompted by street protests in 2011-12.
Defeat brought the loss of many regional rights and privileges, and even the Catalan language was prohibited for a time.
Conflicts were endemic, as regional leaders protected their privileges; the south complained of northern domination, and the north feared that the southern elite was bent on capturing power.
So global history is, in part, a framework within which the historian avoids privileging one regional center as primary and others as secondary or peripheral.
They just might spend regional prices for the perverse privilege of booing both sides.
"The US has always been incredibly reluctant to criticise the KSA; and while [the US administration] certainly understands and knows what is going on in the kingdom, the US just privileges economic and regional security concerns and puts human rights on the back of the line.
The countries around the Indian Ocean are fighting tooth-and-nail for the privilege of hosting a regional early-warning centre for tsunamis.
Towards the end of the Old Kingdom, the Pyramid Texts ceased to be an exclusively royal privilege, and were adopted by regional governors and other high-ranking officials.
Mr Aznar cannot be seen to do worse.Spain leads the efforts to protect the financial privileges of the current recipients of regional aid, but it is not alone.
