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The delegates to the Constitutional Convention of the United States could not decide on the name for the type of government they created. As a result, they did not give it a name. An argument arose over whether or not to ratify the constitution.

Then 85 anonymous papers called The Federalist Papers supported the Constitution.

Previously, the term Federalism meant two totally independent nations joining together for one purpose but otherwise totally independent. The writers of The Federalist Papers took an old seldom used word and made it serve a new use.

Thus the Constitution added a new meaning to the term Federalism.

Europe is trying to add yet another meaning to the word.

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