{UAH} THE SEVEN DEMERITS OF FEDERALISM

 Federalism's demerits (from archives).

1.  It creates a deficient authority over component states and individual citizens especially in new states of the 3rd world where the process of nation building and state making is in its early stages.

2.  It creates liability to dissolution by the secession or rebellion of states especially when the core of the federation is an entity that enjoyed independent and hegemonic existence prior to the federation.

3.  It creates liability to division into groups and factions by the formation of separate combinations of component states.

4.  It causes absence of the power of legislation on certain subjects where uniform legislation for the whole state is needed.

5.  It makes want of uniformity among the states in legislation and administration.

6.  It leads to trouble, expenses, and delay due to complexity of a double system of legislation and administration.

7.  It weakens foreign policy.

 

  

 

 

 

 

Lance Corporal (Rtd) Patrick Otto 

"THE SAME HEAT THAT MELTS THE BUTTER HARDENS THE EGG"