Confederacy (disambiguation)

A confederacy can refer to:

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• A form of government; such as a confederation or alliance, formed as a union of political organizations, though it differs from a republic in that the separate political units retain a greater degree of sovereignty over themselves.
• Examples include:
• Confederate Ireland of 1642-1649
• the Commonwealth of Independent States
• the Confederate States of America (commonly called "The Confederacy").
• the Swiss Confederation
• Peru-Bolivian Confederacy of (1836-1839)
• The United States under the Articles of Confederation
• The Confederacy of Independent Systems, a fictional Separatist movement in the Star Wars universe
• The European Union, which resembles a confederacy in some aspects, while resembling a federation in other aspects, and in some aspects neither a confederacy or federation.
• A confederacy can also be a group of individuals operating for a common cause, generally perceived to be a negative term. Such persons are termed confederates.
• See Cabal or conspiracy.