What is a Confederate?

Answer 1

It's a States/Systems where power is decentralized and held primarily or exclusively at the regional or local level.

Answer 2

An association of independent groups for stated purposes. For example, the original conception of the United States was that it would be a confederation where each state would be fully independent of the others, except for a few necessary realms of unity: military actions, diplomacy, interstate commerce, and etcetera. After the civil war, the confederate system was largely replaced with a federal system, where the central government's authority supersedes the authority of states on a broad range of issues.

Answer 3

A confederate, if you are referring to 1860's America, was typically a southerner who felt their rights were being violated by an oppressive industrial north and decided to fight back. They were part of a short lived country called the Confederate States of America and they fought the Union in an attempt to gain their freedom to a better representing government.

A confederation, an association of sovereign states or communities.

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United in a league; Allied by treaty; Engaged in a confederacy; Banded together; Allied

Answer 4

A Confederate was an individual who sought to have the South become a separate nation, and leave the USA.