Question

1. Describe federalism in your own words using evidence from Document 2 to support your description. (4 Points)

In Document 1, how is the author portraying federalism? Please use evidence from the cartoon as to whether this
has a positive or negative undertone (4 Points) Using the knowledge you obtained during this unit, do you agree or
disagree with this representation. Why or why not? (4 Points) ​

Answer 1

Federalism is mainly understood to be an organizational principle in which the individual members (member states) have a limited independence and statehood, but are united to a sovereign overarching federal state.

A federal state consists of sub-states that exercise certain (limited) competences under constitutional law that are not derived from the federal government as a whole. In addition to the state as a whole, the member states of a federal state therefore have their own, original autonomy over the population in their territory in terms of constitutional law.