federalismnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfed.ər.əl.ɪ.zəm/us/ˈfed.ɚ.əl.ɪ.zəm/the system of giving power to a central authority
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Systems of government
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- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- Dem
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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Examples from literature
- Federalism has in its very essence, and even as it exists in America, at least two special faults.
- Federalism, in short, would mean the weakness of Great Britain, both at home and abroad.
- Home Rule is the first stage to federalism.
- The study of federalism, as a system of government, has in recent times become a favorite subject for constitutional writers.
- This we have seen to be the real purport of American federalism.