Mike Lee

I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.

American Politician

Andrew Jackson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

American President

Corrine Brown

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

Mercy Otis Warren

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

American Playwright

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Thomas Jefferson

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

John Brough

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

Franklin Pierce

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Irish Writer

Jalal Talabani

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Iraqi Politician

Confederacy usually implies a temporary alliance for a shared goal.

Common Purpose

The term can apply to any collective group, not just nations.

Broad Usage

When capitalized, 'The Confederacy' refers to the Southern U.S. during the Civil War.

Historical Specificity

The term can carry different connotations depending on regional U.S. perspectives.

Cultural Sensitivity

In politics, a confederacy often has less central authority than a federation.

Political Unity

Members usually maintain their sovereignty while coordinating together.

Shared Sovereignty

It can form among various entities to protect shared interests or resources.

Mutual Benefit

Confederacies might be informal or formal, legal or unauthorized.

Not Always Formal

 to root out heresy in the Spanish kingdoms— a confederacy of semi-independent kingdoms in the area that would become the modern country of Spain. Though the order came from the church, the monarchs had requested it. When the Inquisition began, the Spanish kingdoms were diverse both ethnically and religiously,

Ugly History: The...

 friendships was shattered and when the rebel army came through a family's magnificent home was burned to the ground but saddest of all she fell in love with a handsome and wealthy lawyer in Memphis and the story of their courtship is moving he joined the Confederacy while she remained a staunch

Josie Underwood's Civil...

 the confederacy principle, which is characterized by a great deal of devolution of authority, decentralization of power. Now, this is what I have described to you.