Definitions for federal government
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1. federal governmentnoun

   a government with strong central powers

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1. federal governmentnoun

   Any of several forms of government of federations.

2. federal governmentnoun

   The national government of the United States, in contrast to government at the state level.

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1. federal government

   A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the central government, is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision, neither by the component states nor the federal political body. Alternatively, a federation is a form of government in which sovereign power is formally divided between a central authority and a number of constituent regions so that each region retains some degree of control over its internal affairs. It is often argued that federal states where the central government has overriding powers are not truly federal states. For example, such overriding powers may include: the constitutional authority to suspend a constituent state's government by invoking gross mismanagement or civil unrest, or to adopt national legislation that overrides or infringes on the constituent states' powers by invoking the central government's constitutional authority to ensure "peace and good government" or to implement obligations contracted under an international treaty. The governmental or constitutional structure found in a federation is considered to be federalist, or to be an example of federalism. It can be considered the opposite of another system, the unitary state. France, for example, has been unitary for many centuries. The Austrian Empire was a unitary state with crown lands, after the transformation into the Austria-Hungary monarchy the remaining crown lands of so-called Cisleithania became federated as Länder of the Republic of Austria through the implementation of its constitution. Germany, with its 16 states, or Länder, is an example of a federation. Federations are often multi-ethnic and cover a large area of territory (such as Russia, the United States, Canada, India, or Brazil), but neither is necessarily the case (such as Saint Kitts and Nevis or the Federated States of Micronesia). Several ancient chiefdoms and kingdoms, such as the 4th-century BCE League of Corinth, Noricum in Central Europe, and the Iroquois Confederacy in pre-Columbian North America, could be described as federations or confederations. The Old Swiss Confederacy was an early example of formal non-unitary statehood. Several colonies and dominions in the New World consisted of autonomous provinces, transformed to federal states upon independence such as the United States, and various countries in Latin America (see Spanish American wars of independence). Some of the New World federations failed; the Federal Republic of Central America broke up into independent states less than 20 years after its founding. Others, such as Argentina, have shifted between federal, confederal, and unitary systems, before settling into federalism. Brazil became a federation only after the fall of the monarchy, and Venezuela became a federation after the Federal War. Australia and Canada are also federations. Germany is another nation-state that has switched between confederal, federal and unitary rules, since the German Confederation was founded in 1815. The North German Confederation, the succeeding German Empire and the Weimar Republic were federations. Founded in 1922, the Soviet Union was formally a federation of Soviet republics, autonomous republics and other federal subjects, though in practice highly centralized under the government of the Soviet Union. The Russian Federation has inherited a similar system. India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Malaysia (then Federation of Malaya) became federations on or shortly before becoming independent from the British Empire. In some recent cases, federations have been instituted as a measure to handle ethnic conflict within a state, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Iraq since 2005. With the United States Constitution having become effective on 4 March 1789, the United States is the oldest surviving federation, while the newest federation is Nepal, after its constitution went into effect on 20 September 2015.

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1. federal government

   A federal government is a political system in which power is divided between a central, national government and individual, regional governments, like states or provinces. This system often comes with a constitution dictating the distribution and limitations of powers within these two levels of government. The precise allocation of responsibilities, authority, and autonomy varies from one nation to another. Countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada, and India operate under a federal government system.

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1. Federal Government

   in modern parlance is the political system which a number of independent and sovereign States adopt when they join together for purposes of domestic and especially International policy; local government is freely left with the individual States, and only in the matter of chiefly foreign relations is the central government paramount, but the degree of freedom which each State enjoys is a matter of arrangement when the contract is formed, and the powers vested in the central authority may only be permitted to work through the local government, as in the German Confederation, or may bear directly upon the citizens throughput the federation, as in the U.S. of America, and since 1847 in Switzerland.

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1. Federal Government

   The level of governmental organization and function at the national or country-wide level.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of federal government in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of federal government in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of federal government in a Sentence

1. Berman Law Group:

   Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden, is a senior advisor of Berman Law Group. we have not spoken with Federal Government officials about any of our cases. There have been no discussions between Berman Law Group( including Hunter Biden), with President Hunter Biden, the campaign, transition, or administration about the law firm or any cases, including China related matters, nor will there be.

2. President Donald Trump:

   He's decapitating the leadership of the intelligence community in the middle of a national crisis, it's unconscionable, and of course it sends a message throughout the federal government and particular to other inspectors general.

3. Vice President Biden:

   I think the American people want the federal government to give states monies to build prisons so no hardened criminal is let out, as they say, before his time.

4. Chris Mathys:

   The state and federal government have cut us to less than 5 percent, and some people are getting no water.

5. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker:

   I think a big part of reform is taking big parts of the federal government ... and take them from Washington and send them back to the states.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=federal government
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Federal_Government
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Government
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#FederalGovernment