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Ethnic federalism, multi-ethnic or multi-national federalism, is a form of federal system in which the federated regional or state units are defined by ethnicity. Ethnic federal systems have been created in attempts to accommodate demands for ethnic autonomy and manage inter-ethnic tensions within a state.
SECTION. 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every oth- er State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
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United States, 564 U.S. 211, 222 (2011) (By denying any one government complete jurisdiction over all the concerns of public life, federalism protects the liberty of the individual from arbitrary power. When government acts in excess of its lawful powers, that liberty is at stake.
This paper examines the pitfalls of ethnic federalism as a state building process by focusing on the organization of regional states and political parties along ethnic lines.
Federalism is nowhere in the Constitution. But it is also everywhere in the document—in the Preamble’s commitment to a “more perfect Union” and in every article: the enumerated powers of Congress and the prohibitions against states in Article I; the election of the president in Article II; the grants of jurisdiction under Article III; the “horizontal” federalism provisions of ...
federal constitution may protect minorities, prevent conflict, increase the legitimacy of democratic institutions and reduce pressure for secession. However, federalism (at least as it has traditionally been understood and practiced) is appropriate only where these communities are territorially concentrated; if ethnic, religious or linguistic
The Center for the Study of Federalism (CSF) is a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research and education institution dedicated to supporting and advancing scholarship and public understanding of federal theories, principles, institutions, and processes as practical means of organizing power in free societies.
