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Federalism

Fed′er-al-ism

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
fédéralisme
.]
The principles of Federalists or of federal union.

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federalism

federalism

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federalism (countable and uncountable, plural federalisms)

  1. System of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.
  2. Advocacy of such a system.

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