>>4233507the federalists wanted a strong goverment under a Federal system
colonial brazil had a strong goverment under a municipalist system
centralism is the political tradition of brazil and it was for all its history
also comes to the concept of catholic subsidiary, (the smallest unit fit to rule itself rules itself)
the state is central, its not democratic, it doesn't give power to democratically elected governors, but its decentralized in the municipal sphere
municipalism was big in Brazil specialty during the vargas era (arguably the most centralist goverment we ever had)