- Confederation | Definition, Examples, Facts | Britannica
Confederation, primarily any league or union of people or bodies of people The term in modern political use is generally confined to a permanent union of sovereign states for certain common purposes—e g , the German Confederation established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815
- Confederation - Definition, Examples, Processes - Legal Dictionary
A confederation is a union or coalition of people, or of separate states or nations, which have joined together for a common cause The states of the South banded together into a confederation at the time of the U S Civil War, providing a historic example of confederation for generations to follow
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