By a fierce centralist onslaught by the King and a small group of brutal, greedy, self-serving henchmen out for loot.
And looking at some of the developments pushed through by "centralist and commanding" institutions in Britain and around the world, it is hard not to feel that the locals could do with a stronger voice.
In the reform of a forestry sector governed by centralist, socialist principles towards a sector suited to the challenges of the market economy, the Chinese government needs to establish institutions that can be perceived as credible by social actors.
Wales's success under Warren Gatland has masked underlying problems that need a consensual approach to resolve, not the confrontational stand taken by a centralist WRU that appears resolved to change everything but itself.
It means in practice that, for example, the three historic nations of the Basque country, Catalonia and Galicia, would more or less be denied access to the Court of Justice by the centralist powers in Madrid.
As part of this, the Kalonjists supported CONAKAT against their main local rivals, the centralist Association Générale des Baluba de Katanga (BALUBAKAT) party led by Jason Sendwe, which, although it represented the Baluba of Katanga Province, was in favour of centralism.
It is mostly the common political and institutional visions federalism, direct democracy, individualism, and the will not to be dominated by the surrounding large, often centralist countries that both unite the Swiss and constitute their culture.
Santa Anna soon transformed himself into a centralist caudillo (dictator), ultimately codifying his about-face by replacing the 1824 constitution with a new document, the Seven Laws (1836), that formally put power in the hands of the landed aristocracy (with property qualifications established for holding office and voting) and reconstituted the states as military districts.
In the following decade the kingdom's multiparty parliament came to be controlled by Serbian centralists, while Croatia's elected representatives, led by Radić and the Peasant Party, continued to demand a federal system that would allow Croatia autonomy.
"We have never been a democratic centralist party in which the whole party has to abide by a conference decision for ever more".
