Instead of proposing simply to diminish the influence of government, it really tends to centralisation and the transference of power to the lower classes.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
The norm for the centralisation and organisation had not been, as in nearly all the rest of Europe, the feudal system, but the surviving fragments of the Roman structure.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
But even this is distinctly associated with centralisation.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies