It was the wish of one party to convert the Union into a league of independent states, or a sort of congress, at which the representatives of the several peoples would meet to discuss certain points of their common interests.
Still the final step was never taken; they were not absolutely and formally independent states, like the old settlements of Greece and Phœnicia.
There is no voluntary union of independent states, keeping some powers to themselves and granting other powers to a central authority of their own creation.
The cities which formed the second Athenian alliance had once been subjects of Athens; but, when the second alliance was formed, they were subjects of Athens no longer; they entered the union as independent states.
M^r Charles Pinkney laid before the House the draft of a federal Government which he had prepared, to be agreed upon between the free and independent States of America.
It was the wish of one party to convert the Union into a league of independent States, or a sort of congress, at which the representatives of the several peoples would meet to discuss certain points of their common interests.
Are they a national people, really existing outside and independently of their organization into distinct and mutually independent States?
They have not, as an independent sovereign people, either established their union, or distributed themselves into distinct and mutually independent States.
This Government has not felt called upon to interfere in a contest that is within the belligerent rights of the parties as independent states.
Where states are connected through an executive medium, whether that executive medium is a person, a body corporate, or a state, all the states are free and independent states, and each acts according to its will.
Continental Congress] to declare the United Colonies free and independent states, absolved from all .
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "independent states" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
