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Delegation of authority and duties,
especially in the later 20th century the
movement to decentralize governmental power,
as in the UK where a bill for the creation of
Scottish and Welsh assemblies was introduced
1976 (rejected by a referendum in Scotland
1979). The word was first widely used in this
sense in connection with Ireland, with the
Irish Nationalist Party leader Redmond
claiming in 1898 that the Liberals wished to
diminish Home Rule into `some scheme of
devolution or federalism'.