A Brief Legal Study in Defining the Concept of Federalism and its Characteristics

Ghaleb Alshamayleh1

https://doi.org/10.62271/pjc.16.3.865.878

Abstract 
The research dealt with studying the concept of federalism by defining it jurisprudentially and legally and determining the meanings of federalism according to the concept of some constitutional writers and jurists. The research dealt with identifying the most important characteristics of the legal system of federalism by stating the independence. This research paper reached a set of results, the most important of which is the right to independence of federal jurisdictions, which distinguishes this system from the system of administrative decentralization. The paper also suggested that it is necessary to create a balance between the federal authorities and the regional authorities in order to exclude the tendency to provocation or control on the part of the center or the central government.

Keywords: defining, federal, member states, Jurisdictions, government.