Confederacy (disambiguation)
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A confederacy can refer to:
- 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 Confederacy of Independent Systems, a fictional Separatist movement in the Star Wars universe
- Examples include:
- 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.