federalism

Centralization of executive power has strained India’s federalism.

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.

In a Federalist Society keynote address two years ago at Arizona’s Waldorf Hotel, Clint Bolick described originalism and federalism — or the division of power between national and local governments — as two of his “favorite isms.”

Among the issues dominating the campaign are the rising cost of living, corruption, federalism and minority rights.

He also accused unnamed ethnic armed groups of “destroying the path towards forming a union based on democratic values and federalism.”