He believes in a federal system--a central government and local governments that have genuine powers.
One of the virtues of our federal system is that states are laboratories for public policies.
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On top of this, Germany's dismal fiscal situation needs tackling and its federal system needs overhauling.
Despite the overhaul of the federal system, state premiers still have substantial veto power.
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This tax revenue pattern was replicated in many states whose tax systems peg off the federal system.
Under the proposed scheme, insurers could choose to be governed by various states or the federal system.
The electoral-college system is fiercely defended by small states as an integral part of the federal system.
And this week they agreed on how to reform Germany's federal system, and on a corporate-tax cut.
Rather than building a federal system, it fills in two holes in the single currency's original design.
Then there is the reform of Germany's federal system to make it easier to respond to change.
This exception is essential to the operation of the federal system itself, which would otherwise be rendered meaningless.
California has decided to do the third, and it looks as though a federal system to price carbon will follow.
Under current state law, the only cases Oklahoma sends to the federal system are people who have been forcibly committed.
One oft-cited explanation for this is Germany's federal system, which gives the opposition a de facto veto over tax changes.
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And as Iraqi Kurdistan moves ever farther away from the rest of Iraq, maintaining a federal system may become ever more difficult.
Obama said the federal system for tracking potential terrorism suspects will be reviewed because the latest incident showed it had possible failings.
The framers of our country designed a federal system of certain responsibilities for the federal government and others reserved to the states.
Moreover, the German federal system (devolution, grassroots democracy and so on) has often been held up as a model by European integrationists.
He is one among thousands of Americans in recent decades who have had a jarring introduction to the federal system of asset seizure.
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That seemed brave, but it risks jeopardising the complete overhaul of the federal system that is crucial to the country's medium-term fiscal stability.
German politicians are constrained by a complex federal system, a sceptical public, messy coalition politics and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court.
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Part of the difference is because America has a federal system, and state and local governments collect taxes of about 10 percent of GDP.
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To put an end to this trend, particularly for larger class actions, CAFA devised tight parameters for keeping cases out of the federal system.
Traditional federal system integrators are clearly on notice that pre-competed BPAs will soon displace the traditional RFP as the federal agency contracting vehicle of choice.
Now, however, disenchanted states are discussing "decoupling" from the federal system.
Unless Britain moves to a fully federal system, therefore, the Bundesrat is unlikely to prove much of a model for a new House of Lords.
Of the total inmate population in the federal system, over 40, 000 inmates are categorized as community custody, which means they can, and do, work outside of the prison.
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Under Germany's highly decentralised federal system, the police (other than the federal border guard), the judiciary and the education service are all the responsibility of the individual states.
Fears that a true federal system might lead to the break-up of Nigeria, a fear with substance after the Biafran war of secession of 1967-70, are now misplaced.
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