The kingtel corporation is expanding operations into countries outside the united states. to improve local managers' responsiveness to local conditions, kingel's senior management has decided to delegate decision-making authority further down the chain of command. acme is

Acme is "decentralizing."

Decentralization is the procedure by which the exercises of an association, especially those with respect to arranging and basic leadership, are conveyed or assigned far from a focal, legitimate area or group. Concepts of decentralization have been connected to group dynamics and management science in private organizations and associations, political theory, law and open organization, financial aspects and innovation.  

unless they converted, many non-christians (mainly jews and muslims) were persecuted

the structure of state governments are determined by. "state constitutins'

under the us constitution, all state governments are.'republics'