Federalism is a mode of political organization that unites independent states within a larger political framework while still allowing each state to maintain its own political integrity (Encyclopedia Britannica). While the distribution of power between states and the federal authority will vary from system to system, all federal systems preserve the ability of state governments to decide matters of local importance without interference from the federal superstructure. After the unification of the German state in the late nineteenth century, we witness just this form of federalism. Authority to conduct foreign policy and operation of the military lay within the threshold of the national government, while the states had jurisdiction in areas
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