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Confederation   /kənfˌɛdərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Confederation  n.  
1.
The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states. "The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves." "This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England."
2.
The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
Articles of confederation. See under Article.





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"Confederation" Quotes from Famous Books



... October the King of Prussia, far from thinking of war, but in case of its occurrence wishing to check its disasters as far as possible, proposed to establish a line of neutrality. This was the first idea of the Confederation of the North. Duroc, fearing lest the Russians should enter Hamburg, advised me, as a friend, to adopt precautions. But I was on the spot; I knew all the movement the little detached corps, and ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... reserve to himself the right of going to war along with his lord. Imperial cities began to spring up; these were governed by a lieutenant of the Emperor, or by their own chief magistrate. They achieved confederation, thus guarding themselves against imperial and feudal encroachments. The 'League of the Rhine' and that of the Hanse Towns emerged as the fruit of this policy. The latter federation consisted of about four-score cities of Germany which under their charter enjoyed a commercial monopoly. ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence
... reached him that the Continental Congress, sitting in Philadelphia, had drawn up articles of confederation, and that those articles had been signed by ...
— The Hero of Ticonderoga - or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys • John de Morgan
... negotiations for peace, and the British arguments on the injustice and irregularity of the treatment accorded to the Loyalists were so strong that the American Commissioners were finally driven to the excuse that the Government of the Confederation had no power over the individual States by whom the necessary action must be taken. Finally, in a spirit of mutual concession at the end of the negotiations, the Americans agreed that Congress should "recommend to the legislatures of the respective ...
— The Fathers of the Constitution - Volume 13 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Max Farrand
... Declaration of Independence was signed, a form of government, called the "Articles of Confederation," was brought before Congress; but it was not adopted until several weeks after the ...
— Hero Stories from American History - For Elementary Schools • Albert F. Blaisdell


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