The main way in which the <span>federal system helps prevent the centralization power is that it reserves a good deal of power for the individual states--meaning that this power "checks" the power of the central (federal) government. </span>
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The upshot is that while the Puritans did believe in witchcraft and evil spirits, they rarely associated any real person with those beliefs, and even more rarely persecuted people as witches. And they put a lot more stock generally in real-world problems and solutions than spectral ones.
Because it could not govern effectively after the reign of terror, the directory had to "disband," which led to a massive power vacuum that was eventually filled by the dictatorship of Napoleon.