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	Confederacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Confederacy of Independent Systems, a fictional Separatist movement in the Star Wars universe
		A confederacy can also be a group of individuals operating for a common cause, generally perceived to be a negative term, as in the case of conspirators; see conspiracy
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederacy (133 words)

	Confederacy - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Confederate cruisers built or bought in England were a scourge to the U.S. merchant marine, and later at the settlement of the Alabama claims, Great Britain was adjudged partly responsible for their depredations; but beyond this the Confederate missions of James M. Mason, John Slidell, William L. Yancey, and others in Europe achieved little.
		That the Confederacy was able to continue the war as long as it did is a tribute to its stout soldiers and a few brilliant commanders, notably Robert E. Lee.
		The heroic aspect of the South's struggle was tarnished by its retention and defense of the institution of slavery, yet it long revered the "lost cause" of the Confederacy as its greatest tradition.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Confeder (1404 words)

	Confederate States of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Confederacy had an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-run plantations with exports to a world market of cotton, and to a much lesser extent tobacco and sugar cane.
		The Confederacy appointed junior and field grade officers by election from the enlisted ranks.
		Although no Army service academy was established for the Confederacy, many colleges of the south (such as the Virginia Military Institute) maintained cadet corps that were seen as a training ground for Confederate military leadership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_States_of_America (3878 words)

	Confederacy
		They probably formed the Confederacy as a nation under God and the flag makers knew of the St. Andrew's Cross, it was called the Southern Cross.
		They were in support of the Confederacy not because of slavery, but because of the threat against their livelihood by the United States government, who also committed many racist atrocities.
		To be fair, I believe that not all who believe that the flag is a part of their legacy and heritage are racists.
	www.geocities.com /gngerald/Confederacy.html (954 words)

	M&eacutetis Confederacy Concept
		The actions of a confederacy rely on diplomacy and persuasion, and not on dominance by a numerical majority, or a politically adept elite.
		Confederacies are rarely ìlegalî institutions in the sense of non-profit organizations, or representative associations.
		The mechanism of confederacy is preferred when local, community, or regional autonomy of the participants is an essential element of the co-operative relationship.
	www.othermetis.net /Documents/Confederacy/ConfedWorkshop/concept.html (1591 words)

	Confederacy
		Amid the awful confederacy of injustice, deception, robbery, and crime she is to shine with light from on high.
		The whole confederacy of evil, led by Satan, is seeking diligently to increase the ranks of those who transgress the law of God; and the law of the land sustains them in their apostasy.
		While the past confederacy of evil is arrayed against them He bids them to be brave and strong and fight valiantly for they have a heaven to win, and they have more than an angel in their ranks, the mighty General of armies leads on the armies of heaven.
	www.lightministries.com /SDA/id318.htm (12081 words)

	Iroquois Constitution
		There shall you sit and watch the Council Fire of the Confederacy of the Five Nations, and all the affairs of the Five Nations shall be transacted at this place before you, Adodarhoh, and your cousin Lords, by the Confederate Lords of the Five Nations.
		If a Lord of the Confederacy should become seriously ill and be thought near death, the women who are heirs of his title shall go to his house and lift his crown of deer antlers, the emblem of his Lordship, and place them at one side.
		The Royaneh women of the Confederacy heirs of the Lordship titles shall elect two women of their family as cooks for the Lord when the people shall assemble at his house for business or other purposes.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /iroqcon.htm (10298 words)

	Confederacy
		Confederacy, name commonly given to the Confederate States of America(1861–65), the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their
		Guerrilla warfare, democracy, and the fate of the confederacy.
		Hyperinflation and the confederacy: an interdisciplinary lesson in economics and history.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0813195.html (260 words)

	Overview of the Confederacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To guarantee Southerners their much-desired states' rights, the federal government had no authority to levy protective tariffs, make internal improvements, or overrule state court decisions, while states had the right to sustain their own armies and enter into separate agreements with one another, and were given greater power in amending the constitution.
		The Confederacy's capital was moved from Montgomery to Richmond, Virginia, in May 1861, and regular presidential and congressional elections were held in November.
		After the next congressional elections, held over a nearly six-month period in 1863 due to the logistical problems of the Union military presence across the South, nearly two-fifths of the Confederate House and one half of the Senate were openly anti-administration.
	www.civilwarhome.com /confederacyoverview.htm (740 words)

	Legal Definition of Confederacy, Confederation
		In 1781, the original thirteen states adopted for their federal government the 'Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the States,' which continued in force until the present Constitution of the United States went into full operation when president Washington was sworn into office on April 30, 1789.
		The first is by alleging a general charge of confederacy between the defendants and other persons to injure or defraud the plaintiff.
		When it is intended to rely on a confederacy or combination as a ground of equitable jurisdiction, the confederacy must be specially charged to justify an assumption of jurisdiction.
	www.lectlaw.com /def/c273.htm (278 words)

	Setting the Record Straight [CR-6382] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Together the Blackfeet, the Kainai, the Piikani and the Siksika form the Blackfoot Confederacy, one of the proudest and strongest alliances in the history of Native America.
		From the great Nations that comprise the Confederacy, some of the most respected singers on the pow-wow trail gather to sing together at one drum for this historic recording.
		The Blackfeet Nation of Montana is part of the international Blackfoot Confederacy, which includes the Kainai, the Piikani, and the Siksika (all based in southern Alberta), one of the "proudest and strongest alliances in the history of Native America," according to the liner notes.
	www.canyonrecords.com /cr6382.htm (285 words)

	Flags Of The Confederacy
		As might be expected 2 of the flags from Virginia (the eighth state to join the Confederacy) bear seven stars around a larger center star, and 2 of the flags from North Carolina (the tenth Confederate state) bear ten stars.
		From the "heartland" of the Confederacy (Tennessee and Kentucky) 18 identified flags were surveyed.
		Although Tennessee did not join the Confederacy until the middle of 1861, four of its unit flags bore seven stars and another three had eight (all seven stars surrounding a central star).
	www.confederateflags.org /national/FOTCs_b.htm (1604 words)

	United Daughters of the Confederacy Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I am a Daughter of the Confederacy because I was born a Daughter of the Confederacy.
		I am a Daughter of the Confederacy because I can no more help being a Daughter of the Confederacy than I can help being an American, and I feel that I was greatly favored by inheriting a birthright for both.
		The name "United Daughters of the Confederacy" is a registered trademark of the General Organization and may not be used outside the Organization without the express written consent of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
	www.hqudc.org /main.html (408 words)

	Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Iroquois Confederacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Iroquois Confederacy is a political union of North American Indian nations who acted (and act) in war and peace, in trade alliances and treaties of goodwill, as a single nation.
		The confederacy was long in existence when Europeans arrived and became conscious of it in the early seventeenth century.
		One of the first actions of the English after expelling the Dutch from the colony of New York was the establishment of formal relations with the Haudenosaunee in the form of a treaty with the Mohawks and Senecas in 1664.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_017500_iroquoisconf.htm (2207 words)

	The Six Nations: Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth
		The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, one of the world's oldest democracies, is at least three centuries older than most previous estimates, according to research by Barbara Mann and Jerry Fields of Toledo University, Ohio.
		Using a combination of documentary sources, solar eclipse data, and Iroquois oral history, Mann and Fields assert that the Iroquois Confederacy's body of law was adopted by the Senecas (the last of the five nations to ratify it) August 31, 1142.
		The French use of the term Iroquois to describe the confederacy was itself related to this oral tradition; it came from the practice of ending their orations with the two words hiro and kone.
	www.ratical.org /many_worlds/6Nations (5291 words)

	Iroquois Confederacy on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the prophet Deganawidah and his disciple Hiawatha founded (c.1570) the confederacy (to eliminate incessant intertribal warfare and to end cannibalism), this dwelling became the symbol of the Five Nations.
		It dispersed the Huron in 1649, the Tobacco and the Neutral Nation in 1650, the Erie in 1656, the Conestoga in 1675, and the Illinois c.1700.
		Isaac Jogues, a notable Jesuit missionary, was killed by the Iroquois as a sorcerer in 1646, but the missionaries were somewhat successful, and a considerable number of the Mohawk withdrew from the confederacy and founded (c.1670) a Catholic settlement.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/IroquoisC1.asp (1164 words)

	KIRCHNER'S MAP OF THE CONFEDERACY
		Kirchner's Map of the Confederacy™ was hand colored with extreme detail as if it were to be a "Presentation Map" to be given to the Congress of the Confederate States of America by the cartographer-artist.
		The President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis 1808-89), was born in Kentucky and attended the U.S. Military Academy.
		President Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy under this statue on February 22, 1862.
	www.kirchnerprints.com /csamap.htm (3963 words)

	The Confederacy Project
		This is my proposal for the peaceful secession of a part of the United States to preserve a part of the republic as set up by the founding fathers as the country moves closer and closer to socialism and all lost of freedoms.
		The most important thing to remember is that for the Confederacy project to be successful, to keep this revolution bloodless, all the people who participate in the Confederacy Project must realize that until the final ties are cut we must still take seriously our rights and responsibilities as United States Citizens.
		The Confederacy Project candidates will have to be honest and disclose anything in their past that could cast doubt on their integrity else the press will eat them up alive.
	www.outdoorsunlimited.net /~jpic/conpro.htm (1876 words)

	Why the Confederacy Was Not Ready for War
		In mid 1863, both the Union and the Confederacy could have won the war although; the Confederacy lacked the industry, or manpower to wage a long war with the Union.
		The Confederacy was not in favor of taxing heavily, however most of the taxes they levied were on the lower classes.
		Nevertheless, internal opposition to the Confederacy hurt the stability of a region as well as undermined the war effort.
	americancivilwar.com /authors/arrturo_rivera.html (1798 words)

	Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Powhatan Confederacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Powhatan is a term applied variously to a seventeenth-century Indian town near the falls of the James River, the Indian leader who was born there, the thirty or so chiefdoms he eventually ruled in eastern Virginia, and the Algonquian-related language spoken by all of those people.
		Confederacy is a misnomer, erroneously used by many scholars in the last two centuries.
		And he was very much the leader of the resulting organization; there was nothing of a real confederacy about it.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_031200_powhatanconf.htm (987 words)

	The Iroquois Confederacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Iroquois Confederacy was a sophisticated political and social system.
		The original five nations of the Confederacy were divided into two groups: the Elders, consisting of the Mohawk, the Onondaga, and the Seneca; and the Younger, the Oneida and the Cayuga.
		Despite this distinction, all decisions of the Confederacy had to be unanimous.
	www.carnegiemuseums.org /cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/iroquois/confederacy.html (221 words)

	The Confederacy’s Bomb Brothers, by Peggy Robbins (6.1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These tow munitions experts were the Confederacy’s "Bomb Brothers," and without them the South would likely have fallen far sooner than the spring of 1865.
		His brother George, sometimes called the "chief chemist of the Confederacy," was just as busy as his brother during the war.
		The Confederacy spent about $385,000 for the plant, and both Rains and Gorgas boasted that it was one of the South’s best investments.
	www.hdic.jmu.edu /journal/6.1/notes/robbins/robbins.htm (4002 words)

	eogen - United Daughters of the Confederacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the outgrowth of many local memorial, monument, and Confederate home associations and auxiliaries to camps of United Confederate Veterans that were organized after the War Between the States.
		The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville, Tenn., on September 10, 1894, by founders Mrs.
		The United Daughters of the Confederacy was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on July 18, 1919.
	eogen.editme.com /UnitedDaughtersoftheConfederacy (279 words)

	USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - Confederate Stars and Bars
		The pattern and colors of this flag did not distinguish it sharply fom the Stars and Stripes of the Union.
		It was carried by Confederate troops in the field which were the vast majority of forces under the confederacy.
		The third Official Flag of the Confederacy.On March 4th,1865, a short time before the collapse of the Confederacy, a third pattern was adapted; a broad bar of red was placed on the fly end of the white field.
	www.usflag.org /history/confederatestarsandbars.html (1067 words)

	Search Results for confederacy - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The members of the confederacy were related ethnolinguistic groups who had migrated from the north into what is now central...
		Material on this museum in Richmond, Virginia, and the historic White House of the Confederacy.
		Covers its strategic importance to the Confederacy and the battles that were fought to win control of it.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=confederacy&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (529 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy
		Early explorers and colonists found the Iroquois well established, as they had been for many generations: with a democratic government; with a form of religion that acknowledged a Creator in heaven; with a strong sense of family which was based on, and controlled by, their women; and many other surprises you will soon discover.
		The founder of the Confederacy of the Five Nations is generally acknowledged to be Dekanawida, born near the Bay of Quinte, in southeastern Ontario, Canada.
		Whenever any man proves himself by his good life and his knowledge of good things, naturally fitted as a teacher of good things, he shall be recognized by the Lords as a teacher of peace and religion and the people shall hear him.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/iroquois.html (11536 words)

	The 25-Year, Ongoing Odyssey of 'Confederacy of Dunces: The Movie'
		But before the LSUP even printed "Confederacy," the manuscript had found its way into the hands of Scott Kramer, then a 19-year-old executive at 20th Century Fox.
		When "Confederacy" was in galleys, the LSUP sent it to Kramer on the off chance that he might be interested.
		During the time Kramer has worked on "Confederacy," major names such as Stephen Fry, Harold Ramis, Scott Rudin and Steven Soderbergh have come and gone, and millions of dollars in development costs have accrued — but the project has not yet reached the screen.
	www.thebookstandard.com /bookstandard/news/hollywood/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000865382 (2131 words)

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