| The loosely confederated empire began to feel beleaguered from East and West, becoming aware of the growing pressure of Teutonism. |
| The Diet was to be confederated, that the Poles might be deprived of their last resource, the liberum veto. |
| We are not a pure democracy, however, but rather a confederated republic. |
| The thirteen States, loosely confederated, were too loose an organization to conduct effective war. |
| The futility of enacting mercantilist legislation within a confederated polity was also demonstrated with regard to the navigation laws. |
| And before the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Washington copied James Madison's notes analyzing confederated governments. |
