The phrase "member unit" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a specific part or individual within a larger group or organization. Example: "Each member unit of the team was responsible for completing their assigned task."
Constitutional allocation of powers to a member unit protects individuals from the center, while interlocking arrangements provide influence on central decisions via member unit bodies (Madison, Hume, Goodin 1996).
Confederations are often based on agreements for specific tasks, and the common government may be completely exercised by delegates of the member unit governments.
By entrusting the center with authority to intervene in member units, the federal arrangements can protect minorities' human rights against member unit authorities (Federalist, Watts 1999).
Member units serve as checks on each other, since other member units may intervene to quell insurrection and power abuse in one member unit.
Such coming together federal political orders are typically arranged to constrain the center and prevent majorities from overriding a member unit.
Regarding distributive justice, federal political orders must manage tensions between ensuring member unit autonomy and securing the requisite redistribution within and among the member units.
A central feature is that federations were seen as uniting not only member units as in confederations, but also the citizenry directly.
These features raises fundamental normative questions concerning why member units should matter for the allocation of political power among individuals who live in different member units.
They also feared that the center might gradually usurp the member units' powers.
The decision-making bodies of member units may also participate in central decision-making bodies.
In asymmetric arrangements some of these may differ among member units.
