The confederative diet further decreed the increase of the army, granted imposts on the property of the nobility and clergy, and established a commission of war dependent on the diet only, in order to check the influence of the permanent council of state, which their spoliators had created, for the purpose of destroying the national power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

In default of a confederative system, the several states were held in equilibrium by diplomacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

During the Avignonian captivity and the Great Schism, Italy developed intellectual and confederative unity, imposing her laws of culture and of state-craft even on the Papacy when it returned to Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

Another senior Dashnak lawmaker Vahan Hovhannisyan spoke about the current situation in neighboring Georgia and, in particular, called for it to become a confederative state and for Javakhk, a mostly Armenian-populated province in Georgia, to become an autonomy within that state. “Georgian leaders should have understood that the guarantee of Georgia†™ s development and stability is a confederative state and in that case the rights of Javakhk would be protected, †he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armenianow] Reference

And are we attached to our State and confederative Constitutions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I] Reference