The Origins of the Confederate Republic

The definition of a Confederate republic seems simply to be an assemblage of societies, or an association of two or more states into one state. The extent, modifications, and objects of the federal authority are mere matters of discretion. In the Lycean Confederacy, which consisted of 23 cities or republics, the largest were entitled to three votes in the Common Council,. those of the middle class to two, and the smallest to one. Yet Montesquieu, speaking of this association, says, where I to give a model of an excellent Confederate republic, it would be that of Lycea.