noun. undefined

noun. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units.

noun. Advocacy of such a system of government.

noun. The doctrine of the Federalist Party.

noun. The doctrine or system of federation or federal union in government; the principle of assigning to the care of a central government such matters of common concernment as may be agreed upon, and all others to that of the governments of the federated states, provinces, or tribes; more specifically, the aggregate principles or doctrines of a federal party, as the Federalists of the United States.

noun. The principles of Federalists or of federal union.

noun. System of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.

noun. Advocacy of such a system.

noun. the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units

"The term federalism conjures up more functional and pragmatic ideas about the role of the states...."

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