confederacy

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noun

Plural noun:

confederaciesconfœderacy

1.
An alliance.
2.
(politics) A state where the sovereign constituent units delegate their authority to the centre. As opposed to a federation, where the central and regional governments are each equal and sovereign in their own sphere.
3.
Specifically, an instance of a decentralized governing structure among the indigenous peoples of North America.
The Blackfoot, Iroquois, and Sioux peoples all were governed as confederacies. There were also multi-ethnic confederacies, such as the Iron Confederacy made up of the Plains Cree, Assiniboine, Stoney, and Saulteaux.

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Old Swiss ConfederacySwiss Confederacyintergovernmentalism

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From Middle English confederacie, from confederacie, from Latin cōnfoederātiō. confederation.