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What does confederal mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or being a confederation.
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France and the UK want a confederal Europe, with states retaining power and Europe run by the Council of Europe, made up of the Prime Ministers of the member states.
Others are confederal or consociational, explicitly preserving in legal form some social identities within themselves.
Some would say loose-knit states, such as Canada or Switzerland, mostly confederal in character.
Federal, quasifederal, and confederal constitutions aren't perfect by any means, and there are plenty of bad precedents to point to in constructing an argument against them.
On the whole, as Defranceschi explains, Paoli's idea of union was of a federal or rather confederal kind.
He concludes by recommending the establishment of federal or confederal representative governments as a means of maintaining some degree of democracy.

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