... a federal Europe. The United Kingdom, under John Major where in particular concerned about this. There are considerable questions about whether the British insistence on the inclusion of subsidiarity actually helped stop a form of federalism forcing a centralised processes in Europe, or if federalism actually ever had such an agenda. To help investigate this a clearer understanding of federalism is needed. There are two key concepts to understanding federalism: 1. An understanding of the distribution of power within the state and; 2. An understanding of the relationship between the state-level and sub state- level(s) of government. In a federal state there is generally a clear division of authority between the state-level and the sub state-level - in other words there is a formal distribution of power - examples of the federal state model include the United States, Germany, and Belgium. The formal power distribution within a federal state, along with ...

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