The first constitution for the new multinational federation was ratified in January 1924.
The EU's commitment to basic human principles means that it has a communal vocation that is broader and more universal than that of a multinational federation.
W. Norman, "From Quid Pro Quo to Modus Vivendi: can legalizing secession strengthen the multinational federation?" in F. Requejo and M. Caminal, eds, Political liberalism and Multinational Democracies, London: Routledge, 2010.
Throughout most of his life, he was the chief opponent of the Polish military and political leader Józef Piłsudski and of the latter's vision of Poland as a multinational federation.
If Piłsudski's vision of Poland was based on the historical multiethnic state that had existed under the Jagiellonian dynasty, which he hoped to recreate with a multinational federation (Międzymorze federation), Dmowski's vision was the earlier Polish kingdom ruled by the Piast dynasty, ethnically and religiously homogeneous.
Expanding Federations - Expansions of Federalism?
Almost everywhere, attempts to achieve federation and other forms of multinational communication have foundered on the rocks of nationalism.
Croatia seceded from the crumbling federation in 1991 only to join, two decades later, another multinational union where it meets strikingly similar problems.
This was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, four-arm, unbalanced-design, parallel-group, multicenter, multinational study conducted in 133 centers in 16 countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Mexico, Morocco, the Philippines, Romania, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, U.S., and Venezuela).
