confederacies

They must scatter the wicked, who are linked in confederacies to assist and embolden one another in doing mischief; and there is no doing this but by bringing the wheel over them, that is, putting the laws in execution against them, crushing their power and quashing their projects.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

We could end up, like the European countries, divided into several warring "confederacies," each too weak to defend itself against the depredations of the European powers.

City Journal 2009

I was born deep in the northern mountains, far from the great confederacies, where my father nurtured his magic without interference.

PodCastle » PodCastle 103: Attar of Roses 2010

In preparation for its sessions, Madison, a graduate of the College of New Jersey later Princeton, undertook a systematic examination, through a trunk of books sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson, his friend and onetime colleague in the Virginia legislature, of ancient and modern confederacies, and he also summarized the major problems of American government during the 1780s.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

I was born deep in the northern mountains, far from the great confederacies, where my father nurtured his magic without interference.

PodCastle » 2010 » May 2010

For purposes of comparison, see the discussion of previous confederacies in The Federalist essays 18, 19, and 20, identified as written by Madison “with the Assistance of Alexander Hamilton” in Jacob E.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

A single centralized state risked despotism; government by thirteen sovereign states either unconnected or grouped in two or three confederacies would lead to conflict, even war, and invite foreign intervention.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

When supporters of the Constitution charged its critics with advocating the creation of regional confederacies on the ruins of the union, “Centinel” could take no more.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

The fact that several states had ratified the Constitution of 1787 and were “content with it as it is” would also complicate the work of another convention, as would the supposed determination of “a sect of politicians” to divide the United States into two or three separate confederacies.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Nobody, Dane assumed, wanted to separate the states or to form separate confederacies: “In all our late political discussions,” those options were not to his knowledge mentioned as serious options.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010