Plural of confederation; unions or alliances of states, groups, or nations formed through mutual agreement.
From confederation (from Latin confederatio, from confederatus—allied together) + plural -s suffix.
Famous confederations like the Iroquois Confederacy (which inspired American federalists to think differently about government) show how indigenous peoples used confederated structures centuries before European political theorists formalized the concept.
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