federalismn.
/ˈfɛd(ə)rəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈfɛd(ə)rl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfɛd(ə)rəˌlɪz(ə)m/ 1. Advocacy of a (strong) federal government; (U.S.) the principles of the Federalist party (see federalist adj. 2) (now historical). Cf. federal adj. 4a.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > systems based on specific principle > [noun] > federal system
federalism1787
states-system1806
state system1836
federo1987
society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies
federalism1787
state rights1787
colonizationism1831
hunkerism1845
Reconstructionism1881
Little Americanism1898
Point Four1949
fairness doctrine1952
new frontier1961
Great Society1964
eleventh commandment1966
Nixon Doctrine1969
1787 Let. 26 Dec. in Pennsylvania Packet (1788) 10 Jan. For before the federalism of a Hancock, a Bowdoin, a Dana, a King, and many other illustrious characters, who are members of the convention, anti-federalism must droop, and recoil in silent shame.
1788 B. Lincoln in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) IV. 222 Federalism and anti-federalism were pitted one against the other.
1793 E. Burke Remarks Policy Allies in Wks. (1823) VII. 133 We see every man that the jacobins chuse to apprehend..conveyed to prison..whether he is suspected of royalism, or federalism, moderantism, democracy royal, or [etc.].
1843 J. G. Whittier Democracy & Slavery in Prose Wks. (1889) III. 112 State after state revolted from the ranks of federalism.
1844 Sir J. Graham in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxiii. 20 In Ireland..Federalism..with growing discontent, is gaining ground.
1951 Jrnl. Politics May 193 The state legislatures..had become through malapportionment and conservative rural domination, the citadels of the heirs of Federalism.
1995 S. Elkins & E. McKitrick (title) The age of federalism: the early American Republic, 1788-1800.
2. The federal principle or system of political organization (later often viewed in contrast to centralism). See federal adj. 2a.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > federalism
federalism1804
1804 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 2 207 Federalism would have been too loose a tie.
1876 H. C. Lodge in N. Amer. Rev. 123 116 The chapter on ‘The Treasury and Federalism’.
1919 R. Lynd Ireland a Nation (1920) ix. 113 Federalism, I fear, is regarded by the majority of its supporters..not as a key to open the door to Irish liberty, but as a key to lock the door on Irish liberty.
1975 Australian 20 Jan. 9 Centralism versus federalism has been a fact of Australian life since 1901.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Aug. 7/2 At heart, he remained faithful to his early pan-European ideals and advocated European federalism, which meant to him, as to all who appreciate the genuine meaning of this concept, a safeguard of plurality and diversity against centralisation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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