Meanings
- uncommonuncountableTendency or preference towards having a federational structure, a federation, in which distinct bodies are united.
The years following 1819 thus witnessed a resurgence of continental federationalism ...
1961, James Alexander Robertson, The Hispanic American Historical Review1 more example
In fact, she regarded this slogan, which was popular at the time, as little else than a reactionary escape. Her political views–her insistence on federationalism as opposed to a national state, on “civic friendship” as the new basis of politics instead of talk of tolerance and granting of special rights to minorities, on the need for a positive concept of politics, emphasis on the political.
2015, Liisi Keedus, The Crisis of German Historicism: The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 92
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