confederal
Adjective
Meaning
confederal (not comparable)
Of, pertaining to, or being a confederation.
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An inclusive democracy today can only take the form of a confederal democracy that is based on a network of administrative councils whose members or delegates are elected from popular face-to-face democratic assemblies in the various demoi.
Authority can be delegated to a segment of the citizen body to carry out specific duties, for example to serve as members of popular courts, or of regional and confederal councils.
“The European Youth Guarantee aims to puts young people at the centre of employment policy-making in a way that trade unions have called for over many years,” Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation told EURACTIV.
But he wanted a confederal arrangement, and in a confederation, both sides had to have representation in the government”.
The Arician wood sanctuary near the lake of Nemi was Latin confederal as testified by the dedicatory epigraph quoted by Cato.
Confederal constitutions are rare, and there is often dispute to whether so-called "confederal" states are actually federal.