Historically, many insular civilizations have collapsed due to their rejection towards pluralistic values. Their demise is often met with the lack of trading partners or hostility with neighboring cultures. Today, many nations in the world are in the transition from mono-cultural to becoming multicultural societies. The social boundaries that differentiate us become increasingly apparent during this transition. There’s a need for these nations to rearrange their inter-governmental relationships in order to better serve its diverse population. Modern federalism emerged in 1787 United States of America as a response to confederacy(Feeley 99). Federalism serves as a type of government arrangement that divides the concentration of power into two or more internal divisions, a central …show more content…
The primary model of a federalist arrangement is tailored for nations that stretch across a vast geographical area or with large diverse populations(Feeley 12-13). Before the emergence of federalism, confederacy and unitary governments make up the main regimes for political arrangements. If the different theories of governmental arrangement are compared to a spectrum then Federalism would locate relatively towards the center with confederacy and unitary arrangements on either end. Confederalism is a league of states that gives its members states power while the central government remains relatively weak. In a Confederacy, members subordinate federal components to the Confederacy but would still remain as a completely sovereign state(DeRosa 109). Meanwhile, Unitary governments concentrate power in their central government and controls over sub-administrative governments entities. Countries with a unitary government often encounter complexities with the division of power. Minorities in unitary states are frequently underrepresented or simply