Political or social opposition to centralized government or authority; advocacy for local control and decentralization.
From anti- (against) + centralism (concentration of power at the center, from Latin centrum). Describes ideologies favoring distributed power over concentrated central authority.
Anticentralism fueled the American Revolution—the colonists opposed Britain's centralized royal authority and instead created a system with distributed power among states, proving anticentralist ideas literally shaped a nation!
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