How to Use federalist in a Sentence

federalist

noun

• There are strict constructionists, but who knew Chief Justice John Roberts was a strict federalist?
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 27 Oct. 2020
• Sadly, the Trump administration and the GOP are far from the only fair-weather federalists in politics.
  — Ilya Somin, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
• His consultancy, North Star Research, is based in a stately federalist row house in Alexandria.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2018
• Part of the problem in Germany is structural and linked to its federalist system that delegates governing powers to constituent regions.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 7 July 2021
• The answers to these questions are complicated by the United States’ federalist system, which empowers states and counties to take the lead on policies related to public health.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2021
• Erosion of comity between the states will have far-reaching and unpredictable consequences for our federalist system of government.
  — Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
• The country was strained by the two great dividing lines of the mid 19th century: federalists against nationalists, and liberals against conservatives.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 5 May 2020
• Under our federalist system, each state is free to compete to encourage companies and employees to join its community.
  — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• The successes heralded by Ethiopia’s federalist constitution also revealed the limits of such a system.
  — John Mukum Mbaku, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2021
• Santa Anna, president of Mexico eleven separate times, first took power as a federalist, then switched sides and became a centralizer.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 July 2021
• Undeterred, European federalists, led by Macron, see the coronavirus as an opportunity to advance their project.
  — Peter Rough, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020
• That Senate Republicans have introduced legislation allowing states to waive out of some—not all, but just some—of ObamaCare’s myriad mandates should give true federalists little comfort.
  — WSJ, 11 July 2017
• Nevertheless, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights did not federalize education, which remains a state responsibility in our federalist system.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Oct. 2021
• Recent years have provided many prominent examples of this conservative, federalist, state-centric approach to governance in practice.
  — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• But if there’s no financial reason for bankruptcy, America’s federalist system would typically prevent a federal court from intervening in a state legal dispute, Jacoby says.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2021
• Every state, in our federalist system, has perfectly constitutional laws and regulations that indirectly affect industries outside its boundaries.
  — Matthew Scully, National Review, 11 July 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024