His chief work, Gli ultimi casi de Romagna (1846; "The Last Chances for Romagna"), is a trenchant political critique of the papal government of Romagna; it demanded that its populace renounce local revolts and show confidence in the Piedmontese king of Sardinia, Charles Albert, who would head a liberal Italian federation.
The bloody struggle established animosities between conservatives and liberals throughout the federation that would last well beyond the brief life of the United Provinces.
The European elites assumed that the divide between Islam and the West was as antiquated as scimitars and broadswords, and that a liberal, multicultural, post-Christian federation would have no difficulty absorbing new arrivals from more traditional societies.
His supporters include Ernest-Antoine Seillière, the liberal head of the employers' federation.
Since Federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy comprising six states and several territories.
One liberal Orange County blogger credited Gebre with transforming the federation "from an afterthought between Los Angeles and San Diego to a model of organization and labor strength throughout the state".
But that also means our wide array of institutions -- two-year and four-year, public and private, research and liberal arts -- have operated more as a federation with reasonably strong communication and connections between institutions than as a truly interconnected structure.
Despite those shortcomings, and despite the acrimony on Capitol Hill, liberals like Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO federation of unions, are bullish on Obama's second term, given the focus on the middle class and jobs during the election.
In 1824 it adopted the constitution of the Federal Republic of Central America, a document similar in its liberal features to the Spanish constitution of 1812, providing for a federation of Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
In 2007, Keidanren, the country's main business federation, contributed almost 2.9 billion yen to the governing Liberals, and just 80 million yen to the Democrats.
The former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt, who is an MEP and leads the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), is an ardent supporter of a European federation.
