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A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. [1] Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defence, foreign relations, internal trade or currency, with the central government being required to provide support for all its members.
A second Confederate constitution was written in March, 1861, which sought to replace the confederation with a federal government; much of this constitution replicated the United States Constitution verbatim, but contained several explicit protections of the institution of slavery including provisions for the recognition and protection of ...
A political union is a type of political entity which is composed of, or created from, smaller polities, or the process which achieves this. These smaller polities are usually called federated states and federal territories in a federal government; and prefectures, regions, or provinces in the case of a centralised government.
The Swiss Confederation and its 26 cantons. A confederation, in modern political terms, is usually limited to a permanent union of sovereign states for common action in relation to other states. [5] The closest entity in the world to a confederation at this time is the European Union.
Aro Confederacy: 1690–1902: Confederation of States: One of the two largest precolonial and colonial empires of the Igbo (Ibo) people of West Africa. (The other is the Kingdom of Nri.) Dzików Confederation: 1734–1736: Military Confederation: Sikh Confederacy: 1748–1799: Confederation of States: Confederation of 12 Sikh states. Heshun ...
Military forces of the Confederate States, the Army, Marine Corps, and Navy of the Confederacy Confederate Ireland , a period of Irish self-government during the Eleven Years' War Canadian Confederation , the 1867 union of three British provinces (United Canada, split into Ontario and Quebec; Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick) as "one dominion ...
Confederation may also refer to: Confederation (Poland), an informal association in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Confederation (political party), a political party that initially formed as an alliance of right-wing political parties in Poland; Confederacy (disambiguation), various states, communities, and other groups
A federacy is a form of government with features of both a federation and unitary state. [1] In a federacy, at least one of the constituent parts of the state is autonomous, while the other constituent parts are either not autonomous or comparatively less autonomous.