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What does Independency mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (ecclesiastical history) The principle that each individual religious congregation is free from any external ecclesiastical control, as by a bishop.
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The operative semantic is copulative, a linking of isolated units still preserving their molecular independency.
A printed copy of this Declaration of Independency came accidentally to our hands a few days after the dispatch of the Mercury packet, and we have the honor to enclose it.
It did not explicitly mention Presbyterianism and included some ambiguous formulations that left the door open to Independency.
Independency and Republicanism were on one side, Presbyterianism and limited monarchy on the other.
Behold us now at the close of the ten years, and we have realized an independency.
He sought to balance the independency of the local congregation with the need for a wider, visible unity.

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