or are they always Government's OF Governments?
"The governmental or constitutional structure found in a federation is known as federalism. It can be considered the opposite of another system, the unitary state.
A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions under a central (federal) government.
As originally written, the United States Constitution was created to limit the federal government from exerting power over the states by enumerating only specific powers. It was further limited by the addition of the Tenth Amendment contained in the Bill of Rights and the Eleventh Amendment. However, later amendments, particularly the Fourteenth Amendment, gave the federal government considerable authority over states."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation
A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only powers that the central government chooses to delegate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_state
with any luck, I will no longer be pestered by those who do not understand this word.
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