Question

Define Federation.

Answer 1

1. Hamilton defines Federation as “an association of states that form a new one.”
2. Sir Herbert Samuel, “Federation is a system in which there is a central authority that represents the whole and acts on behalf of the whole in external affairs and in such internal affairs as are held to be of common interest and in which there are also provincial authorities with powers of legislation and administration within the spheres allotted to them by the constitution.”