Concept in Definition ABC

It is designated with the term of federation to that state made up of the meeting of several territorial units, a federation, it is also usually called a federal state or Federal Republic and mostly usually flaunts as a government the republican system and in very few exceptions the monarchical.

The most characteristic and salient feature of the Federation is that These various units or entities that make it up are self-governing, that is, they enjoy a greater or lesser degree of autonomy, but in any case they legislate and govern with respect to certain questions or matters that concern. The status of that self-government is stipulated and established in the constitutions themselves, which although it generally happens that they are subject to the Constitution mother, unilaterally they cannot be ignored by the government of the federation.

On the other hand, the federations they can be multi-ethnic, that is to say, summon several races and also spread through wide territories, in the meantime,

The parts that make up a federation in general are called federated states, to differentiate them from national states, but of course, there are some variants according to the place of the world in which they are given, for example, in Argentina, the federated states are called provinces, in Switzerland, cantons and in Canada also provinces as in the case of Argentina.

It is in matters of an international nature that most of the federal states do not have competence to understand, being these in the orbit of the federated national government.

On the other hand, is designated with the term of federation to that city mentioned in the marginright of the Uruguay River and that belongs to the Argentine province of Entre Ríos.