ABSTRACT
Using United States measuring rods, however, is far from suggesting that United States federalism should be considered the only “true” or “pure” federalism. Establishing a separate, sovereign, and identifiable unit in relation to other nation-states is the avowed goal of a federal process, which tries either to establish a new nation to replace preceding separate sovereignties or to preserve a unitary system by federalization as a timely response to a threat of secession or other revolt against excessive unitary centralism. Federal constitutions make federal government’s independent of their constituent units by granting them the right to levy direct taxes and enforce the federal laws The Connecticut Compromise is often viewed by United States citizens as an essential yardstick of federalism as, on July 5, 1787, the founding fathers agreed to a proportional representation of unequal states in the lower house of the Congress and an equal representation of unequal states in the upper house.
