federative
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- adjective
- /ˈfɛdərətɪv/
- Formal
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federativo
- The central government was the agent of those states, and the states were the principals in the federative compact.
- federative system
- federative state
Examples
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By developing their own version of a federative state based on the notion of justice for all, the Iranians created a commonwealth of semi-independent nations (or a federation of autonomous states) and arguably laid the foundation for the idea of state democracy or a democratic state.
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This process eventually led to the federative principle in both religion and politics, whereby church congregations federated to form larger bodies in a Presbyterian fashion, and states such as Rhode Island began as a federation of towns.
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Who should exercise federative powers, the powers of war?
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So it's a complex issue, but I think he was quite right that often the federative power and the executive power are the same.
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Rather, it was a central government of a federative union of states.
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It seems safe to say that equality and justice were important to governance in this federative system of statehood.
Academic text (2007) -
It was a federative system in which peoples of varying cultural backgrounds were given the right to govern their affairs autonomously, with respect for their religious and cultural identities.
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The Constitution of the United States was founded as a federative compact between the states, marking out the authority of a central government, having enumerated powers delegated to it by sovereign states, which reserved for themselves the vast domain of unenumerated powers.
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The conflict of 1861-1865 was not, as Lincoln said it was, a struggle to see if a modern republican state could survive, but a struggle to see if a vast union of federative republics could survive without the consolidation and consequent destruction of independent moral life that a dominant faction will inevitably seek to impose on the rest.
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The leaders of the new government agreed on the principles of a federative system to ensure cooperation between the states.
Synonyms
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Relating to the central government of a country that shares power with states
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States or regions joined under one central government but keeping some local power
United under a central government while keeping some local powers
Compounds
A large republic of the former Soviet Union covering much of eastern Europe and northern Asia, now Russia
How Centralized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Federative comes from the same root as federal and federation, from the Latin foedus meaning 'treaty' or 'league'. So federative describes a system where regions or states are joined by agreement and share power, which explains its use for a federal form of government.