| 1 | Here' s how Montesquieu put it. | |
| 2 | Society is a large group of people as a whole, not isolated individual members. - Montesquieu. | |
| 3 | Therefore, the real founder of the decentralization theory is Locke, not Montesquieu. | |
| 4 | "The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite" (Montesquieu). | |
| 5 | Locke and Montesquieu are respectively the initiator and the culminant figure of the decentralization theory in the West. |