States formconfederations in order to derive equal advantages from their union; and in the case just alluded to, the federal government would derive its power from the unequal distribution of those benefits among the states.
The principle upon which all confederations rest is that of a divided sovereignty.
Independent nations have therefore a natural tendency to centralization, and confederations to dismemberment.
We find “leagues” and confederations formed in order to resist the coming doom of political extinction.
The royal power had now almost vanished, and the system of granting fiefs had resulted in the formation of a class of powerful local rulers--the dukes of the great groups or confederations of tribes.
Members of Confederations and other Unions A state in the sense of public law is not sovereign in the sense of international law, if there are any limitations upon its power to enter into relations with other states.
The article of Confederations is certainly worthy of your pen.
It would form a most interesting addition, to show, what have been the nature of the Confederations which have existed hitherto, what were their excellences, and what their defects.
The Guilds were confederations of men with property, seeking to ensure each man in the possession of that property.
The Trades Unions are confederations of men without property, seeking to balance its absence by numbers and the necessary character of their labour.
All goods that came to them from abroad were carried to their shores by powerful confederations of foreign merchants who controlled the great continental trade routes of the north-west.
Thus it was that in the face of the powerful confederations that held the trade of the Northern and the Southern Seas English merchants were laying violent hands on the commerce of the world.
States form confederations in order to derive equal advantages from their union; and in the case just alluded to, the Federal Government would derive its power from the unequal distribution of those benefits amongst the States.
From the best information we can gather, it is highly probable that these confederations had buried the hatchet a short time previous to the landing of Penn.
In a few cases several of such republics had formed confederations, and in four cases such confederations had already become hereditary monarchies.
These confederations were always based primarily upon religious union, the protection of a common deity, a union to protect and support a common shrine.
They were called Amphictyonies, confederations of neighbours, a name which lived long in the history of Greece.
And yet the founder of the greatest of confederations holds a place not quite the same as that of the founders of the lesser confederations of other times.
And it is proposed to bring in federation, not only as a perfectly new thing, but under circumstances utterly unlike those under which any of the present or past confederations of the world ever came into being.
But sacred confederations of this sort are unlawful from these arguments, 1.
Many sad and sharp reproofs for such transactions and confederations do conclude the same thing, Judg.
The first plan of campaign drawn up at Paris aimed at driving a solid wedge of French troops between the two Confederations and inducing or compelling the South to join France; it was hoped that Saxony would follow.
To this matter we shall recur when we treat of the German Empire, formed by the union of the North and South German Confederations of 1866.
The liberum veto was abolished; confederations were prohibited as inconsistent with the genius of the constitution; and it was provided, that, after every quarter of a century, the constitution should be revised and amended.
Only the misery was, that there could be as many confederations as there were separate factions.
We except from this condemnation such confederations and leagues as are entered into by princes, cities, and others for the preservation of the peace of their lands; these shall remain in force until we have decreed otherwise.
Smaller and closer confederations are entered into, as necessity arises for special wants, by several tribes.
The difficulty was the greater as the customary laws of different tribes and confederationswere at variance as to the compensation due in different cases.
Again there was seen the deplorable spectacle of a divided state, with two confederations and two diets.
Each canton had its separate birth to freedom, as was the case with the free states of ancient Greece, which joined into confederations for a similar end--protection against a common foe.
It would form a most interesting addition, to show, what has been the nature of the Confederations which have existed hitherto, what were their excellencies, and what their defects.
The emergence of some ambitious personality naturally makes Europe suspicious and watchful, and leads to the formation of leagues and confederations against him.
A return to the conditions existing before the partition, the hostile factions and the confederations more tyrannical even than Russia, would not have been a great improvement.
Their names, even have generally been taken from some small tribe or family which accident rendered prominent; and the names Tartar, Turk, and Mongol, have been perpetuated and misapplied to armies and confederations of mixed races.
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