As the first and greatest of Federalists, he saved the confederation from disruption by supplying the idea of central authority.
The new Confederation would hem her in on both sides.
Then they provided that when nine States had ratified the Constitution it should become effective, and a confederation should be formed by those nine States, if there were no others.
Each colony considered itself a separate government; that the confederation was for mutual protection against a foreign foe, and the prevention of strife and war among themselves.
Doubtless the founders of our government, the majority of them at least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment.
The South claimed the sovereignty of States, but claimed the right to coerce into their confederation such States as they wanted, that is, all the States where slavery existed.
The best example of the fourth stage is found in the situation in ancient Mexico before the Spanish conquest: “The confederation under the leadership of the Mexicans had somewhat more progressive ideas of conquest.
Money permits the armament of peasant sons, and the drilling of them into professional soldiers, whose solid organization is always superior to the loose confederation of an armed mass of knights.
The stability of our confederation at home, our reputation abroad, our power of defence, the confidence and affection of the people of one State towards those of another, all depend upon it.
To prevent this contraband, the treaty of confederationmight make provision against the contraband both of the English and Americans.
Six months later the Irish Confederation held its first meeting in the Round Room of the Rotundo.
These in their turn were driven out by a Hindu confederation headed by the chiefs of Vijayanagar, and Kerala was absorbed in the Vijayanagar empire until its destruction by the Mahommedans in 1565.
Peace was concluded at Zurich in the November following, and there the idea of an Italian confederation was mooted afresh.
This confederation (bund) lacked strength in the Central Government, and although it reduced the number of States from more than three hundred to thirty-nine, it still perpetuated elements of unwieldiness and discord.
In fact, there never was a Toltec empire at all, but simply a confederation of the three cities of Tullan, Colhuacan and Otompan, all of which may be regarded as Toltec in the social sense which I have just described.
The last and most formidable problem Philip had yet to solve, the destruction of Olynthus, the centre of a great confederation of thirty-two towns.
As early as the sixth century the Thuringians and Saxons are conterminous, and members of the same confederation against the Franks.
A law of the North German Confederation allows the pledging of future wages, only in the case of public officers, and those holding permanent places in the service of private parties, whose salaries are over 400 thalers per annum.
In the cantons, in which the Swiss confederation had its origin, the pasturage of the Alps lasts generally thirteen weeks, but in the higher Alps it lasts only from six to seven weeks.
Since confederation the history of Canada has been one of continued commercial and social development.
The confederation of the provinces was now in the air.
It was agreed upon, that the government should be pledged to introduce the federal principle into Canada and to aim at a confederation in which all British America should be “united under a general legislature based upon the federal principle.
There was a confederation of all the associations on this continent in 1855, and to this the local association gave its adhesion.
Practically all the premiers, from confederation to the present holder of the office, have been either citizens of Montreal or largely connected with the city.
But Confederation was in the air and its discussion was uppermost.
The officers named by the British Government and who remained in office at Confederation were R.
The accession of Maryland to the Confederation is an event, which may have some good influence upon our affairs, as it may serve to convince a great part of Europe that a strong principle of union exists among us.
It has not such an effect upon my mind at present, and I am strongly encouraged to hope, that the confederation will become properly invigorated by the accession of the King of Prussia.
From that time the spirit of the confederationseems to have languished.
Rumored project of the House of Bourbon to render the Mediterranean a privileged sea by a confederation of the powers occupying its shores.
The confederationcharges itself with the instruction of the engineers, artillery, cavalry, and riflemen.
This administrator directs and superintends the workmen employed in the factories of the confederation for the manufacture of powder and percussion caps, as well as arms, gun-carriages, &c.
Celtic confederation conterminous with the Belgæ, the Ligurians, and the Helvetians descended with its eastern divisions upon Noricum, and with its western ones upon Provence.
That the Cimbri were the Eastern members of the confederation seems certain.
When the proposed Articles of Confederation reached the Annual Register they became "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union entered into by the several colonies of New Hampshire, &c.
On the proposed articles of confederation (May 10th) and the debate thereon, see Sparks's Franklin, v.
The Articles of Confederation can be found in Elliot's Debates, i.
The terror that despotism felt, clandestinely begot a confederation of despots; and their attack upon France was produced by their fears at home.
Give such a man a good soldier people to follow him and an honest purpose, and a Balkan Confederation might be achieved, with some further blood-letting perhaps.
After Austerlitz Napoleon in 1806 established the Confederationof the Rhine, and the Holy Roman Empire came finally to an end.
Rhodes became the head of a maritime confederation of the cities and islands along the coasts of Asia Minor, and thus laid the basis of a remarkable commercial prosperity and naval power.
The city which first assumed importance and leadership among the towns of this confederation was Alba Longa, the "Long White City," so called because its buildings stretched for a great distance along the summit of a whitish ridge.
The four most noted centres of the trade of the confederation were the cities of Bruges, London, Bergen, and Novgorod.
The name was the common designation of a number of Teutonic tribes that had formed a confederation while dwelling beyond the Rhine.
He himself was head of the kingdom of Italy, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.
The confederation eventually embraced eighty-five of the principal towns of North Germany.
Thus what had been simply a voluntary confederation of sovereign and independent cities, was converted into what was practically an absolute monarchy, with the Attic democracy as the imperial master.
The Prince of Orange, seeing the impossibility of uniting all the states, devoted his efforts to effecting a confederation of the Northern ones.
A constitution was adopted which provided that the affairs of the confederation should be managed by a Diet, the members of which were to be chosen by the different states.
Argos would not join the proposed confederation through hatred of Sparta; Thebes, through jealousy of Athens.
Sixteen of the German states, declaring themselves independent of the empire, were formed into a league, called the Confederation of the Rhine, with Napoleon as Protector.
Two of these changes--the transformation of Switzerland from a confederation of states into a confederated state, and the independence of Belgium--have been accomplished to the profit of liberty.
The President of the American States in Confederation was gathering an army for the defence of Southern liberty.
The emergency had found the new Confederation altogether unprepared, and trouble and confusion were the inevitable result.
One spirit--the spirit of the unconquerable Confederation of the Southern States--animated all.
But whatconfederation could give us back the power and prestige of the old Union?
Even now, Jefferson Davis is said to be in favor of a confederation between the Free and the Slave States.
But before Cromwell came to smash theconfederation and everything papal in Ireland, the Irish chief gladdened the hearts of his countrymen by the glorious victory of Benburb, one of the most memorable in Irish history.
The king, then at Oxford, was importuned by the confederation on the one side and the Puritans on the other; one petitioning for freedom of worship, the other for the suppression of popery.
The confederation was occupied with endless debates and dissensions.
The Helvetian Confederation has proposed the inauguration of a class of international treaties for the referment to arbitration of grave questions between nations.
