How to Use federalism in a Sentence

federalism

noun

• This is not the first time our federalism has harmed health.
  — Wendy E. Parmet, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
• This is a huge win for property rights, federalism, and the rule of law.
  — Daren Bakst, National Review, 2 June 2023
• In the end, the main kibosh to federalism has come from the technocrats running the economy for Mr Duterte.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• But these actions only treat the symptoms of the strife, not the cause: ethnic federalism.
  — Yohannes Y. Gedamu, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018
• That will set up a legal showdown based on federalism and states’ rights.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• One of those critical areas is this idea of federalism on which the United States was built.
  — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2021
• Without a return to federalism and local control, the tide will not be turned.
  — Stanley Kurtz, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• This president has been all about federalism and giving the states more authority, this just flies in the face of that.
  — John Frank, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2017
• To avoid the tyranny of the majority of a few populous areas imposing its will on all the rest, the founders came up with the idea of federalism.
  — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• There was a deep commitment to federalism at the Founding.
  — Aziz Huq, Time, 8 Dec. 2022
• At issue in the sports gambling case is the 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution and federalism versus states’ rights.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• But instead of waging this war with guns, Dutton wages it with federalism.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• This concept of federalism, this is an important part of it.
  — Jonathan Lai, Philly.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• Often, in a case such as this one, there are tensions over federalism—what is a state power and what is a federal power.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
• However, there is a more tempered view among those who see the wisdom of the ethnic federalism system.
  — Samuel Getachew, Quartz Africa, 4 Dec. 2020
• The least famous passage in that essay, and the most relevant today, is about one thing: federalism.
  — Cass R. Sunstein Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• But the more important point is that this is exactly how federalism is supposed to work.
  — WSJ, 18 May 2022
• The new Congress this month moved straight to shoving with all its might, and Ohio pushed back last week with a lawsuit that could set an important precedent for federalism.
  — Dave Yost, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
• Even when the problem is a pathogen that spreads across state and national borders, the principles of federalism still apply.
  — Haley Weiss, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
• Parade training followed, in sun or rain, and at night the volunteers learned about federalism, warfare and what the new Myanmar might look like.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• Ethiopia isn’t alone in facing the conundrum of federalism.
  — Yohannes Gedamu, Quartz Africa, 26 June 2019
• The unity government has also proposed federalism as a way to reach out to the country’s ethnic groups.
  — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• That’s why delisting would be a win not only for the Caniks and Posticals but also for federalism and property rights.
  — Cori Petersen, WSJ, 27 July 2018
• For decades, federalism was the last refuge of reactionaries.
  — Alan Greenblatt, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• Perhaps Democrats’ newfound 2017 commitment to federalism will amount to more than a form of resistance to Trump.
  — Lee Drutman, Vox, 31 May 2018
• The high court held that federalism trumps copyright law, effectively giving states a free pass.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2020
• At that point, federalism, and the Union, are dead, as states refuse to recognize the legitimacy of court decisions, and the comparisons with the Taney court are complete.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2023
• Expect to see such strategic partisan use of federalism continue as the parties go to battle over Trump’s and the GOP’s agenda.
  — Mallory E. Sorelle and Alexis N. Walker, Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• The Constitution designs the federal government, in its separation of powers, and the nation and the states, through federalism to fight and oppose each other.
  — John Yoo, National Review, 23 June 2024
• The 10th Amendment defines federalism, spelling out that states have any powers not specifically assigned to the national government.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024