The term " federalism " is also used to describe a system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units ( such as states or provinces ).

A confederation is a form of republic whereby the constituent states or regional governing bodies have ultimate sovereignty and there is no autonomous federal government apart from the working together of the regional bodies or states on issues affecting the whole.

The University of London and the University of Wales have since their inception been federal universities ; they have a governing body with overall responsibility for the maintenance of standards at the constituent colleges.

In 2001 Flores was elected senator for the Tarapacá Region, as a member of the center-left Party for Democracy ( PPD ), a constituent party of the governing coalition Concertación.

In the meantime, the governing junta that Iturbide headed convened a constituent congress to set up the new government.

The African National Congress ( ANC ) insisted that it should be drawn up by a democratically-elected constituent assembly, while the governing National Party ( NP ) feared that the rights of minorities would not be protected in such a process, and proposed instead that the constitution be negotiated by consensus between the parties and then put to a referendum.

The New Deal, the Great Society, and Watergate helped solidify Democratic control of Congress, but the 1980s and early 1990s were a period of fragmentation of their coalition, when the popularity of Democratic incumbents as constituent servants masked growing disenchantment with Congress ' governing capacities.

In September 2010 the women's rugby body the Rugby Football Union for Women ( RFUW ) was integrated into the RFU as a " constituent body ", and whilst it retains some independence within the organisation, its adoption of RFU structures and management effectively unify the men's and women's sport under a single governing body.

A collegiate university ( also federal university or affiliating university ) is a university in which governing authority and functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges.

Major junior hockey is overseen by the Canadian Hockey League, which acts as the governing body for its three constituent leagues:

A college ( Latin: collegium ) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one.

However, the post-WWII period was mostly characterised by expansion and consolidation within the university, such as the acquisition as a constituent body of the Jesuit theological institution Heythrop College on its move from Oxfordshire in 1969.

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro ( UNCG ), also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system.

The Royal College of Science was a higher education institution located in South Kensington ; it was a constituent college of Imperial College London from 1907 until it was wholly absorbed by Imperial in 2002.

A constituent campus of the University of North Carolina system, WCU is the fifth oldest institution in the UNC system.

1972 A constituent institution of the University of North Carolina

The Copenhagen government, which in May 1851 made an abortive attempt to come to an understanding with the inhabitants of the duchies by convening an assembly of notables at Flensburg, issued on December 6, 1851 a project for the future organisation of the monarchy on the basis of the equality of its constituent states, with a common ministry ; and on January 28, 1852 a royal letter announced the institution of a unitary state which, while maintaining the fundamental constitution of Denmark, would increase the parliamentary powers of the estates of the two duchies.

The merged institution, known as Cardiff University, ceased to be a constituent institution and became a new category of ' Affiliated / Linked Institutions '.

Shetland College, a constituent partner institution of the University of the Highlands and Islands, is also based in the town, offering degree-level education ( among other further education courses ) to locals who may have difficulty travelling further afield to study ( the next closest university-level institution is the University of Aberdeen, a twelve-hour boat journey away ).

This merger became effective on August 1, 2004, on which date Cardiff University ceased to be a constituent institution of the University of Wales and became an independent " link institution " affiliated to the federal University.

University College is a constituent college of the University of Toronto, created in 1853 specifically as an institution of higher learning free of religious affiliation.

Founded in 1881 the institution was, for most of its early existence, a constituent college of the University of St Andrews alongside United College and St Mary's College located in the town of St Andrews itself.

NCSSM is a founding member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology ( NCSSSMST ) and a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system.

Later, in 1972, Dr. Lyons became the first chancellor of FSU when it was made a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina by legislative act.

NC A & T is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System.

Winston-Salem State University ( WSSU ), a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina, is a historically black public research university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States.

Chelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation.

The university has grown into a vast institution having 24 postgraduate departments, 44 constituent colleges, and 85 affiliated colleges imparting higher education in Humanities, Social Science, Science, Commerce, Medical, Engineering & Management.

Heythrop College, at constituent institution of the University of London offers the BD course parallel to a Bachelor of Arts programme in Theology.

It is a constituent organization of the International Psychoanalytical Association and a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council.

Each constituent institution is represented on a statewide editorial board, which determines editorial policy.

The same role in a federal constituent and a dependent territory is fulfilled by the corresponding office equivalent to that of a head of state.

Beside the federal Yugoslav People's Army, each constituent republic of the former SFR Yugoslavia had its own Territorial Defense Forces.

Such aspects of public policy have direct constitutional significance whether applied in the European context or in federated nations such as the United States, Canada, and Australia where the courts have to contend not only with jurisdiction and law conflicts between the constituent states or territories, but also as between state and federal courts, and as between constituent states and relevant laws from other states outside the federation.

of the whole country as opposed to those of one of its constituent federal states ( Länder ).

Whereas the council of citizens served as an ordinary assembly, representing the people of FRY, the council of republics was made equally by representatives from the federation's constituent republics, to ensure federal equality.

Serbia became a constituent republic within the SFRY known as the Socialist Republic of Serbia and had a republic-branch of the federal communist party, the League of Communists of Serbia.

It was granted its Royal Charter in 1880, becoming the first constituent college of the federal Victoria University.

In 1873 it moved to new premises at Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock and from 1880 it was a constituent college of the federal Victoria University.

It has long been a major centre for teacher-training, being the site of two constituent Colleges ( Digby Stuart College and Froebel College ) of the former federal Roehampton Institute of Higher Education ( now Roehampton University ), as well as southeast England's only lecturer-training college ( Garnett College ) which eventually relocated and became part of the University of Greenwich.

Australia, Canada, India, Mexico and the United States have federal systems, and have constitutions ( as do some of their constituent states or provinces ).

In 1947, when all borders of the former Yugoslav constituent republics had been defined by demarcation commissions, pursuant to decisions of the AVNOJ of 1943 and 1945, the federal organization of Yugoslav Baranya was defined as Croatian territory allowing its integration with Slavonia.

Today's Russia is defined as a federation in its Constitution ( Article 5 ), and Russia's federal subjects, i. e., the constituent republics, oblasts, krais, the federal-level cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, as well as one autonomous oblast and four autonomous ( national ) okrugs, are equal in legal terms, save for some symbolic features allowed to republics ( constitution, president, national language ).

Goldsmiths, University of London is the operational name for Goldsmiths ' College, a public research university located in London, United Kingdom which specialises in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

Eysenck was Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London ( a constituent college of the federal University of London ), from 1955 to 1983.

In another case in Canada in early 2002, an Ontario federal Liberal MP wrote an ill-advised letter to a constituent telling him that if he wished help on some matter he'd written to the MP about, next time he " had better vote Liberal.

In subsequent constitution making, federal states have often adopted bicameralism, and the solution remains popular when regional differences or sensitivities require more explicit representation, with the second chamber representing the constituent states.

A related, but slightly different, use of the term existed in the federal University of Wales ; some of its constituent colleges took titles such as " University College Aberystwyth ".

* University College London is the oldest of the constituent colleges of the federal University of London, and one of the largest institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom.

As the guarantor of the Constitution and the entire system of constitutional law, the President shall ensure that the constitutions, laws and regulations of the constituent territories of the Russian Federation be in full compliance with the country ’ s Constitution and federal laws.

The President has the right to suspend laws and regulations issued by executive bodies of Russia ’ s constituent territories if such laws and regulations contravene the Constitution, federal laws or international obligations of the Russian Federation, or violate human and civil rights and liberties, pending the resolution of the issue in an appropriate court.

A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national ( e. g. constituent federal ) state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state ( and sometimes a union territory ) of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government.