federalism
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In July Reuters reported that Mr. Barrack’s inveighing against federalism in Syria had given President Ahmed al-Sharaa the impression he had a U.S. green light to deploy troops southward into Druze lands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
"Argentina, beyond the rhetoric and due to its federalism, attempts something similar," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
"We want federalism for the Syrian coast," she added.
From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025
Everything else — federalism, three branches of government, two houses of the legislature, an independent judiciary — had been around for a long time, in theory and in practice.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2024
As Jefferson put it so graphically, their larger goal was “to sink federalism into an abyss from which there shall be no resurrection of it.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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