Confederacy

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Confederacy may refer to:

A form of government, synonymous with confederation or , formed as a union of political organizations, differing from a republic in that the separate political units retain sovereignty themselves; some examples follow:

Confederate States of America (commonly called "The Confederacy")
Confederate Ireland of 1642-1649
Canadian Confederation
Swiss Confederation
Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836-1839
Powhatan Confederacy
Confederacy of Independent Systems, a fictional Separatist movement in the Star Wars universe
Terran Confederacy, a fictional political entity in the StarCraft universe

Furthermore, a group of individuals operating for a common cause, generally perceived to be a negative term, as in the case of conspirators; see conspiracy

Finally, federacy, a form of goverment that share both features of federations and unitary states, is etymologically linked to the word 'federacy' as short for confederacy.

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