Origin: Greek suffix -ism
Federalism has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
"The debate over fiscal policy highlighted how federalism allows individual states to manage their own budgets while still adhering to national laws."
A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.
"The debate centered on how much control the states should retain under our federalism before the central authority oversteps its bounds."