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
• While justices were expressing concerns about one state deciding the election for the entire country, Reinert said, that’s an issue of federalism and doesn’t address the legal arguments for disqualifying Trump.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024