Utopia demands a pragmatic flexibility. The Classicists' vision, born of a vastly different anthropology, is strikingly different. Man, however wonderfully created in the image of God, is not perfectible in this life. Life in God's creation is an amazing complex of blessing and suffering and man is a sinner, making Utopia impossible. Providence has taught the Classicist that Utopian schemes are dangerous.
Benevolent tyrants are tyrants nonetheless.
Wealth and power most often breed a dangerous lust to coerce men. The Classicist is therefore a localist and decentralist. Broader confederations among states must be confined by fixed constitutional limitations. Men are foolishly and naively trusted without fixed restraints upon their power. Such fragmentation and specialization leads them further and further away from a thoughtful consideration of first principles and teleological ends.