Maximos (@WWWTW), Empire, Destroying Subsidiarity

I left this comment:
"When most people critique the empire, they are looking at American foreign policy and actiongs taken by the U.S. government overseas. Is this what you are referring to? It seems to me that the violation of sovereignty or the usurpation of authority overseas is not quite the same as the violation of subsidiarity. However, it seems more appropriate to talk about the violation of subsidiarity if we look at the nation-state as a form of empire, with the centralization of power and the destruction of the federal system after the Civil War. But even then this might be questionable, as I don't think the American Federal system, as originally intended, actually was an embodiment of subsidiarity, but something else."

Edit. Maximos's response.