Associations to the word «Federalism»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

FEDERALISM, noun. The idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke