What Does Confederation Mean?
A Confederation means an alliance or united block of nations, political organisations, group etc unified or formed for a set purpose or goal. Synonyms of Confederation include alliance, coalition, league, union, group, confederacy etc. Confederations are not a very old phenomenon and the states or members within these structures can have a wide variety of possibilities where the relationship between member states is concerned. For instance in some confederations the central authority or government is strong and the structure resembles a federal state where as in others it may be a loose network of member companies operating in different geographic areas. The Confederate States of America is a good example of such a structure. They finally lost to the Union Army during the American Civil War and the United States of America was born.
