User blog comment:Benihime101/Central 46 is alive?/@comment-2120712-20101018010257/@comment-893506-20101018040416

I'm pretty much in agreement with Lia. The Central 46 in general (regardless of which generation it is) has come across as more irrational than anything else. The reaction to Aizen is completely understandable, but overall, especially with the Visored incident, they've proven to be hotheads, probably moreso than anyone else in the Soul Society.

Anyway, given the Central 46 is a major figurehead of all of the Soul Society in general, it's not really surprising that steps were taken to replace the previous generation. Most systems of government in history in general have always been like that whenever previous key members have resigned, vanished, or died. Exactly how the new Central 46 came to be may not be revealed, but something to compensate for the previous members' deaths wasn't hard to see coming.

I'm not saying I knew there was a replacement Central 46 or something equal to them running the laws of the Soul Society before this was revealed, but it's not likely for a social system like the Soul Society to leave out any form of government to regulate the rules and laws of the Soul Society.