Synonyms:
confederation, alliance
Meaning: the act of forming an alliance or confederation
Synonyms:
confederation, confederacy, federation
Meaning: a union of political organizations
Synonyms:
alliance, confederation
Meaning: the state of being allied or confederated
Usage examples
Other Defects of the Present Confederation
Gives reference to the full report in the Confederation files.
The present Confederation, feeble as it is intended to repose in the United States, an unlimited power of providing for the pecuniary wants of the Union.
In the Articles of Confederation, the first Constitution of the United States, the theory was that of direct taxation, and the manner was to impose upon the States an amount which each was to furnish to the common Treasury to defray expenses for the common defense and general welfare.
The last resolution refers to a law founded on a provision of the Constitution, which contains an obligation of faith to every State of the Union; and that obligation of faith has been violated by thirteen States of the Confederacy--as many as originally fought the battles of the Revolution and established the Confederation.
If the common Treasury of the States had, as under the Confederation, been supplied by direct taxation, who can doubt that a rigid economy would have been the rule of the Government; that representatives would have returned to their tax-paying constituents to justify appropriations for which they had voted by showing that they were required for the general welfare, and were authorized by the Constitution under which they were acting?