Antedating of "Federalism"

[Fred Shapiro]

federalism (OED 1793)

1792 tr. J. P. Brissot de Warville _New Travels in the United States of
America_ 233 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  The quarrel about
federalism divided the town.

Fred Shapiro


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