federalize


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Synonyms for federalize

unite on a federal basis or band together as a league

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put under the control and authority of a federal government

enter into a league for a common purpose

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Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Sunday said the officials raising revenues and managing the economy were in a good position to comment on the plan to federalize the bureaucracy, as they 'can provide a reality check if a proposal is financially feasible and fundable.'
Section 1076 of the Act amends the "Insurrection Act" expanding presidential authority to federalize the National Guard during certain emergencies and disasters.
Topics include the debate of why bothering to federalize the EU, the constitutional scheme of federalism, asymmetric federalism between globalization and regionalization, the addition of direct democracy, federalism and the European party system, the view from below, insights from comparative federalism via cybercrime, economic theory, lessons from experience in creating a social Europe, and the balancing act inherent in the Constitutional Treaty for Europe.
The Senate bill proposed to federalize the 28,000 screeners now in service, resulting in background checks, better training and better pay.
"The push to federalize juvenile law is dangerous," he says.
This is part of a plan to federalize the 18,000 local and municipal law-enforcement agencies currently under local control.
We want to federalize in order to fragmentize the otherwise unified political entities under one government.
It recommended that the provincial government and the NHA should urgently take necessary steps to federalize the Gilgit-Chitral road.
Over the last decade, Congress has contributed significantly to the rising caseload by continuing to federalize crimes already covered by state laws....
1447 would federalize the security screening process at airports (a contentious issue), add federal sky marshals, call for more crew training, and require additional security procedures such as securing cockpit doors.
Duterte's pronouncement on Monday that he would not accept any position in a transition government if the administration succeeded in its effort to revise the 1987 Constitution and federalize the republic.
In the three-page expose, DeMint cites a 21-page secret Obama administration document reportedly bearing the designation "Internal Draft-NOT FOR RELEASE" wherein the President sets forth his plan to federalize more than 10 million acres of land in the western United States by placing them under the "protection" of the Department of the Interior.
9, which adopted the constituent assembly (Con-ass) as the mode by which the 1987 Constitution would be changed in order to federalize the government.