Journal of college of Law for Legal and Political Sciences

Abstract

Abstract

Did not witness any Constitution issue or Iraqi political that controversy broad and exciting and continuous, as witnessed by the issue of entitlement federal and its practical applications, since the occupations of Iraq In 2003 and topple the dictatorial regime in which, a regime that relied too much on the central state's strict strengthen his regime, and perhaps the introduction of a federal democratic is an almost certain guarantee against the return of the curriculum in the dictatorial rule, and led to the establishment of a free society is justice and unity, and this was confirmed by the Iraqi Constitution of 2005 in its preamble.
But the federal experiment in Iraq has not been successful so far, because of the many obstacles they faced and that prevented. The application of federal as stipulated by the Constitution, this is what we will look to in this research, which divided it into two sections, we dealt with the topic first definition of federalism, and it characteristics, and methods of its inception, engineering, political federalism, types and underlying principles, and the second section we dealt the obstacles that faced and still faces federal in Iraq, like Constitutional and legal disincentives, and political challenges, and the problem of the distribution of competence, then concluded research conclusion included several conclusions and recommendations.