Confederacy

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Confederacy may refer to:

1. A form of government, synonymous with confederation or alliance, 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" in the US)
   • 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
   • Three confederacies of Gojoseon
   • Galactic Confederacy, a part of Scientology's belief system
2. A group of individuals operating for a common cause, generally perceived to be a negative term, as in the case of conspirators; see conspiracy
3. Federacy, a form of government that share both features of federations and unitary states, is etymologically linked to the word 'federacy' as short for confederacy.

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