In the contex of Americian Political History a confederation is a body of independent states bound together for a joint action as was the first union created after the Americian Revolution it was established under The Articles of Confederation. So a confederation and a confederacy are both sort of leagues that do not have as tight a bonding as a union implies. All of which Is probably more than anybody wanted to know anyway. Happy Second of July which was the day that most of the people who signed The Decoration signed . Jerry O.