{
  "id": "federal.government",
  "term": "federal",
  "sense": "government",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 20,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "government.administrative",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a system where a central authority and various regions share governing power through structured coordination",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "government.administrative",
      "region.spatial",
      "central.location",
      "power.energy",
      "system.organized",
      "united.social",
      "share.distribution",
      "various.diverse"
    ],
    "interaction": "the central authority and regional entities coordinate through shared rules and structured roles to form a cohesive governance system",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared authority",
      "structured autonomy",
      "cohesive rule enforcement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution established federal authority balanced with state powers through enumerated and reserved rights.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Switzerland’s 1848 federal constitution divided sovereignty between cantons and the national assembly in Bern.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The European Union coordinates federal-style governance among 27 member states through the European Commission in Brussels.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "power.energy",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "federal",
    "federals"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "added missing constitutive concepts 'share.distribution' and 'various.diverse' to align components with the definition, which correctly describes a federal government"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-federal.government"
}