The doctrine of subsidiarity, which sprang to prominence in the politics of the European Union (EU) in the early 1990s, was first used by Pope Pius XI in 1931. What it essentially means is that government should take place at the lowest level possible....

The principle of limiting the powers of the higher levels of government and devolving economic decision making as far as possible downwards so that those affected by governmental actions have the maximum amount of control over them. Subsidiarity is...

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Subsidiarity is the principle which states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest (or, the lowest) competent authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary function,...